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saddle-backed

/sad-l-bakt/US // ˈsæd lˌbækt //

鞍背式,鞍座的,鞍背式的,鞍背的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
    • : having a saddlelike marking on the back, as certain birds.

Examples

  • 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.