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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of backstroke.

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Examples

  • We toured a salt church, backstroked in a teal-blue lake, and feasted on a fritanga barbecue in the cobbled streets of Villa de Leyva.

    Finding Peace in Colombia 2009

  • We toured a salt church, backstroked in a teal-blue lake, and feasted on a fritanga barbecue in the cobbled streets of Villa de Leyva.

    Finding Peace in Colombia 2009

  • I backstroked and slid under the surface, swimming underwater until I reached the dock.

    And One Last Thing… Molly Harper 2010

  • Some of them had even broken out the emergency landing equipment, their nose plugs and swim caps keeping them dry, while they backstroked to safety.

    Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010

  • Some of them had even broken out the emergency landing equipment, their nose plugs and swim caps keeping them dry, while they backstroked to safety.

    Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010

  • I backstroked and slid under the surface, swimming underwater until I reached the dock.

    And One Last Thing… Molly Harper 2010

  • May had a moment to glance over the side of the boat, where the lorelei backstroked, grinning at her, her rope tied to the bow of the ship.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

  • May had a moment to glance over the side of the boat, where the lorelei backstroked, grinning at her, her rope tied to the bow of the ship.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

  • May had a moment to glance over the side of the boat, where the lorelei backstroked, grinning at her, her rope tied to the bow of the ship.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

  • May had a moment to glance over the side of the boat, where the lorelei backstroked, grinning at her, her rope tied to the bow of the ship.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

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