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saddle-backed
[ sad-l-bakt ]
/ ˈsæd lˌbækt /
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adjective
having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
having a saddlelike marking on the back, as certain birds.
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Origin of saddle-backed
First recorded in 1535–45
Words nearby saddle-backed
sadder but wiser,
Saddharma-Pundarika,
saddle,
saddleback,
saddleback caterpillar,
saddle-backed,
saddlebag,
saddlebill,
saddle-billed stork,
saddle blanket,
saddle block Dictionary.com Unabridged
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How to use saddle-backed in a sentence
Traffic up ahead on Myrtle backed up, and Johnson began weaving in and out.
These are the kids of the U.S.-backed Pakistani army and they should stop their parents from bombing our families and children.
And make no mistake; they were backed up by sincere religious beliefs.
Reid planted a flag, ready to make his mark in the world of whisky, backed by ambition and a gorgeous piece of land.
He wrote that he deserved to die and alluded to a ominous plan that he had backed out of twice already.
Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.
"I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.
One evening in the month of April, a slim, straight-backed girl stood in the veranda of a bungalow at Meerut.
We had been twelve hours in the saddle, and had ridden over nearly a hundred miles of ground.
Also our six-shooters reposed in their scabbards, the four belts hooked over the horn of MacRae's saddle.
British Dictionary definitions for saddle-backed
adjective
having the back curved in shape or concave like a saddle
having a saddleback
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