Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Angled rearward from the points of attachment. Used especially of aircraft wings.
- adjective Having wings of this type. Used of an aircraft.
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- adjective of an aircraft wing
angled backwards from itsattachment to thefuselage - adjective of a hairstyle
backswept
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment
- adjective used of hair
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Examples
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The broad-shouldered man, with dark sweptback hair, was wearing a slick suit, its color a blue just the regal side of navy and therefore suggestive of a uniform.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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The broad-shouldered man, with dark sweptback hair, was wearing a slick suit, its color a blue just the regal side of navy and therefore suggestive of a uniform.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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The broad-shouldered man, with dark sweptback hair, was wearing a slick suit, its color a blue just the regal side of navy and therefore suggestive of a uniform.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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The broad-shouldered man, with dark sweptback hair, was wearing a slick suit, its color a blue just the regal side of navy and therefore suggestive of a uniform.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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The broad-shouldered man, with dark sweptback hair, was wearing a slick suit, its color a blue just the regal side of navy and therefore suggestive of a uniform.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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Looking at some buteoine hawk and aquiline eagle skulls online, the first skull lacks the winglike sweptback bones preorbitals maybe?
Another Quiz 2006
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Twin, sweptback, and tapered fins with angular tips.
MiG-25 FOXBAT (MIKOYAN-GUREVICH) United States Army 1993
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My decision is to attack immediately in a pentagonal column, sweptback, cone formation
The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981
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Not far away, drifting in the same orbit, was a sweptback Titov-V spaceplane, and close to that an almost spherical Aries-1B, the workhorse of space, with the four stubby legs of its lunar-landing shock absorbers jutting from one side.
2001 A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C. 1968
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In less than a month, Mr. Withington proved that sweptback wings worked.
The Seattle Times 2011
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