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Example sentences for "backlog"

Lexicographically close words:
backhand; backhanded; backing; backlash; backless; backs; backsheesh; backside; backsight; backslidden
  1. Put your glowing embers next to the backlog and your fresh wood on top of that and sit down to your breakfast with the certainty that your fire will be blazing before you get up from the table.

  2. The B logs in each case should be the backlog and the small logs A and C should be in front of B.

  3. The backlog period having passed, we are beginning to have in society people of the cultured manner, as it is called, or polished bearing, in which the polish is the most noticeable thing about the man.

  4. NINTH STUDY I Can you have a backlog in July?

  5. The birch log holds out very well while it is green, but has not substance enough for a backlog when dry.

  6. But, in fact, the gentleman who sat before the backlog in his winter-house had other things to think of.

  7. It is time to punch the backlog and put on a new forestick.

  8. A whole leisure day before you, a good novel in hand, and the backlog only just beginning to kindle, with uncounted hours of comfort in it, has life anything more delicious?

  9. III I never felt so much the value of a house with a backlog in it as during the late spring; for its lateness was its main feature.

  10. Backlog Sketches is a large, 16 page, illustrated literary paper, size Harper's Weekly, every issue being filled with the most charming stories and sketches and choicest miscellany.

  11. I ask your help to end the backlog at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

  12. Continued control of consumer credit will help to reduce the pressure on prices of durable goods and will also prolong the period during which the backlog demand will be effective.

  13. We also launched major initiatives to reduce the backlog of defaulted student loans and otherwise to curb fraud, abuse, and waste in education programs.

  14. No backlog of demand can exist very long in the face of our tremendous productive capacity.

  15. Had it been worked up as he sketched it in his mind, it would have been the outdoor counterpart of his "Backlog Studies.

  16. This is the volume entitled "Backlog Studies.

  17. McNutt disagreed with Stimson's interpretation of the law and announced plans to abandon it as soon as the current backlog of uninducted Negroes was absorbed, a date later set for January 1944.

  18. After the yellow chintz curtains were close drawn, so shutting out the wintry night, and while the backlog was glowing, he read to us from those poems that at the author's will exact tears or smiles from their hearers.

  19. The fire had died down; only the huge backlog showed splotches of red against the charred black; in front of it were the faintly smoking ashes of a once sprightly blaze.

  20. She was vigorously fanning the backlog when a sound from behind indicated that her mother had risen from the chair.

  21. The fire had burned out, save the backlog which still glowed.

  22. She saw him make a motion as if he had swallowed something; then he stooped and shouldered the heavy backlog and some smaller sticks.

  23. He followed it with Backlog Studies, a series of sketches of the Donald G.

  24. I was anxious to start enlisting the aid of scientists, as General Samford had directed, but before this could be done we had a backlog of UFO reports that had to be evaluated.

  25. The 178 reports of the past two months, not counting the thousand or so letters that we'd received directly from the public, had piled up a sizable backlog since we'd had time to investigate and analyze only the better reports.

  26. After the minor flurry of reports on July 1 we had a short breathing spell and found time to clean up a sizable backlog of reports.

  27. He stood a long time, when he recognized the familiar crash of a breaking backlog falling together, and heard the customary leap of the frightened dog.

  28. His first thought was sheer amazement that she was not afraid, for it was evident now that the backlog had awakened her, and she had taken the dog and gone to her mother.

  29. He'll distribute the backlog quickly and easily, and then we have only the second problem to solve.

  30. Within a day half of the backlog was distributed.

  31. You moind the day me and Billy Backlog come and towld yow about us seein' that chap on th' edge of yon wood that night?

  32. There was one colored boy in school, who did not sit on a bench, like the rest, but on a block of wood that looked like a backlog turned endwise.

  33. When supper was finished, and the tea-kettle was pushed back on the crane, and the backlog had been reduced to a heap of fiery embers, then was the time for listening to sailor yarns and ghost and witch legends.

  34. We're slashing the backlog that had too many veterans waiting years to get the benefits they need.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backlog" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; accumulate; accumulation; aggregation; amass; backlog; brush; budget; cache; collect; collection; commissary; cornucopia; cumulation; dump; fagot; firewood; garner; heap; hide; hoard; hold; inventory; keep; kindling; larder; log; mass; material; materiel; munitions; pile; plenitude; plenty; provision; rations; repertory; reserve; reserves; reservoir; resource; rick; save; savings; secrete; stack; stock; stockpile; store; supplies; treasure; treasury