Example Sentences

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Perhaps part of the reason for the silence is that people aren’t getting the information out of Iran that they need to get them off their backsides and into the streets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

“We are working our backsides off, we feel unfulfilled, and we think, ‘For what?’”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 10, 2026

It doesn't matter that this is at Old Trafford, because we will still kick their backsides there anyway!

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

To its embarrassment, the Katy ISD Board of Trustees realized that its “nudity” bans had extended to several elementary school library books depicting cartoon backsides.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2023

She was tired of staring at the backsides of the people crowding around us.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson