Sentences with backer
back·er
B b - I was looking for a backer to assist me in the attempted buy-out.
- I was looking for a backer to assist me in the attempted buyout.Despite around $20m raised from backers, a steady stream of losses has left the company with only six months of cash reserves.A backer is someone who helps or supports a project, an organization, or a person, usually by giving money.
- He was handcuffed with his hands behind his back.
- She was carrying her little daughter on her back.
- Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders, p. 174:/eɪ/ This diphthong is a glide from mid front tongue position toward a higher, backer position similar to that of /ɪ/.
- She has a pain in the small of her back.
- She stabbed him in the back.
- One prominent backer was Jack Hayward, a gung-ho industrialist and the chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers soccer club.