backswept

The clerk was a small man of indeterminate age, and in spite of working in a wig shop, his own black-died backswept hair was thin and flecked with dandruff.

Babylon Nights Daniel Depp 2010

Primarily artifacts of the 1950s, rocketship movies inevitably featured square-jawed American heroes, evil villains (who were more than likely Godless Commies) and sleek, cigar-shaped craft fitted out with graceful, backswept fins and needle-shaped antennae at the nose.

Simple Tricks and Nonsense: March 2004 Archives 2004

Primarily artifacts of the 1950s, rocketship movies inevitably featured square-jawed American heroes, evil villains (who were more than likely Godless Commies) and sleek, cigar-shaped craft fitted out with graceful, backswept fins and needle-shaped antennae at the nose.

Simple Tricks and Nonsense: Video Review: Conquest of Space 2004

Weapons mounts sprouted from every possible angle—Sisko, eyes narrowing, counted four projections that should be phaser mounts on just one of the down-curved, backswept wings—and the hull was laced with what appeared to be sensor points.

Proud Helios Melissa Scott 2000

He described the aircraft as being silver in color (except for the underside of the tail and nose which were painted black), and having single, backswept tapered wings.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT 1996

The sleek, backswept wings, the double bubble of the canopy perched almost too far up on the aircraft, its sleek, aerodynamically sound nose.

Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997

As he accelerated, his wings folded themselves to their sixty-eight-degree backswept configuration, and a moment later he slid smoothly through the sound barrier.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

He wore the latest backswept wig, and his coat was cut velvet, embroidered all over with hundreds of frivolous silk butterflies.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

The MiGs dropped like hawks stooping on their prey, four silver-gray aircraft with backswept delta wings.

Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

Tombstone could see the silvery arc of one of the Russian's outboard turboprops, could see the markings painted on the backswept wing, a huge red star bordered in white.

Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991