How to Use in reverse in a Sentence

in reverse

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  • Pack the car in reverse order, so the last box loaded is the first one your student needs.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The vehicle did not stop and continued in reverse away from me.
    — David Zeug, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now observe how the same playbook is applied in reverse to peptides — and see how the hypocrisy grows.
    — A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2026
  • Matthieu Blazy did the same thing in reverse at Chanel, putting a pink lace shirt under a great slouchy tweed coat.
    — Laurence Goldberg, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The ride will feature a 90-degree climb and an upside-down launch, and will run the course in reverse.
    — Michael L. Diamond, USA Today, 28 July 2026
  • Stern proved that the sacrificial cards should always be played in reverse order.
    — Dana MacKenzie, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Aguilar put her vehicle in reverse and dragged Lock with the door, according to the affidavit.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
  • And here’s the leaderboard again, which, coincidentally, is the tee times list in reverse order.
    — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • Storing heat underground uses the same principle, though in reverse.
    — Moones Alamooti, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026
  • List in reverse chronological order your work history for the past 15 years.
    — Marlon Luis, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026
  • And, really, what is the American Dream if not a nostalgic song sung in reverse?
    — Nathan King, airmail.news, 9 July 2026
  • And the fact that Langley seems easygoing and laid-back almost in reverse proportion to the stir around her is part of the appeal.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutors said Huerta tried to brake-check officers and even put the tow truck in reverse and drove toward officers at one point.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • About 10 seconds after the first officer approached, Villegas Gonzalez put his car in reverse and backed away from them.
    — Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • List in reverse chronological order colleges or universities attended with years of attendance and degrees.
    — Michelle Whitman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The team also ran the analysis in reverse to see whether perianal diseases influence sleep, and used additional sensitivity tests to confirm the results held up.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Additionally, the boat changes directions at two separate points, sending riders quickly in reverse, according to Carowinds.
    — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2026
  • Nothing forced the bargain in reverse; the rules simply accumulated, ordinance upon ordinance, until building for workers stopped making sense.
    — Jonathan Tower, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Because the switching happens thousands of times a second, the device can hold voltage steady, absorb a disturbance or operate in reverse, pushing power backward from batteries toward the grid.
    — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The landscape changed around me; condensing from plains, desert, and mountains into the jungles of Central America, then unfolding in reverse, into the expanse of the altiplano.
    — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Everything was at stake for the Los Angeles Lakers, but as free agency started Monday, the organization seemed stuck in neutral — if not moving backward in reverse.
    — Dan Woike, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Though, of course, because Larry is Larry (and therefore governed by a peculiar physics that dictates that every step forward be followed by two in reverse), his year at SNL would prove to be far from a rosy adventure.
    — Blake J. Harris, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The movie proceeds in reverse chronological order, through twenty years of Korea’s halting democratization and seven chapters in the life of an Everyman, played by the then unknown Sul Kyung-gu.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Reticular chemistry is traditional chemistry in reverse; rather than try to discover new substances and imagine possible applications, reticular chemists start with a problem and engineer materials solutions.
    — Martin Cizmar, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The formula includes collagen-stimulating copper peptides and Matrixyl 3000 (a gentle retinol alternative) to quite-literally make the skin age in reverse.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 4 July 2026
  • None Graduated Nova High School class of 1980 List in reverse chronological order your work history for the past 15 years.
    — Michelle Whitman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026
  • In scenes like a heist movie in reverse, the priceless Medieval artwork was spirited into the British Museum on Friday in the dead of night, after a high-tech, tight-security operation where any slip-up could have spelled disaster.
    — ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • As many people, including Clooney, noted, Wednesday night’s opening ceremony was essentially autofiction in reverse — a film that had been loosely inspired by Clooney’s life was now influencing events in his actual life.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
  • It is headed straight toward another SUV, driven by a medic for CHOP security, who immediately throws it in reverse and backs away to avoid the white Jeep, which is coming at it head on.
    — Sydney Brownstone, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026
  • While Hometown International and E-Waste were later involved in reverse mergers, investors lost what has been estimated to be nearly $5 million, which included consulting fees paid to the Cokers and Patten, prosecutors noted in their filing.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 3 July 2026

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