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Example sentences for "backup"

Lexicographically close words:
backstage; backstairs; backstay; backstays; backstitch; backward; backwardly; backwardness; backwards; backwash
  1. Ikeda's eyes were filled with anger and his tone carried an unmistakable edge of threat.

  2. First, I can evade the bastards' tracking stations by switching off the transponder, then going "on the deck.

  3. Without another word he swung open the hatch, passed through, and stepped into the personnel module.

  4. But why do you think I am here, talking to you?

  5. The temperature inside was a constant 5 degrees Celsius, kept just above freezing to extend the life of the sensitive electronic gear in the next three bays.

  6. There's also a backup safety here, at the top rear of the pistol grip.

  7. But perhaps it might be wise to discuss the possibility of waiting for the backup team from Tokyo, if only to convince ourselves they are not needed.

  8. Not much money, but I have a backup when I need it.

  9. We watch fuel tanks leak, backup computers go bad, life support systems malfunction and suffer through a complete range of incom- prehensible defects in the multi-billion dollar space program.

  10. We will either use one of our backup computers, or move the center to a temporary location.

  11. Then I got to the bottom, the one with backup data on the collection.

  12. The computer must have had its own backup power, some circuit that didn't run through the main utility room.

  13. This is backup consensus for the big drive.

  14. But first, we're going to wait for your backup to arrive, and I'm going to file a report.

  15. What's more, the medical backup for combat support is atrocious.

  16. I can't promise I'll ever get to like it, but I will learn to handle it well enough to give you any backup you need.

  17. David Bain, demolitions expert and the backup Inquisitor she'd hoped to find, a tall blue-eyed brunet with an easy grin; the other was Lt.

  18. GNU tar (short for Tape ARchiver) is an implementation of what is probably the most widely used backup or archiving utility in Linux today.

  19. This means that tar can take many files and combine them all into one large file or write them out to a backup device such as a tape drive.

  20. Backup Tools Backups are important under any operating system.

  21. If I used /dev/st0 here, for instance, it would write the backup to the tape drive.

  22. The nearest backup ship is more than three hours after that.

  23. Part of a backup plan for keeping this place hidden.

  24. My most important assignment here is to set up a secret base for Starlight Enterprise, which will be a backup and defense unit prepared for any events such as the one we've just experienced.

  25. An emergency backup system had kicked in, causing the lights to flicker back on and the atmosphere recycler to hum quietly back into efficiency.

  26. Now and then I just have a raw instinct that keeping a safety backup around is a good idea.

  27. Maybe the electrical--" "How about the backup battery?

  28. My next-most-recent backup was three years old, dating from the completion of my second symphony.

  29. I hated getting distracted from a backup -- one of my enduring fears was that I'd forget the backup altogether and leave myself vulnerable for an entire week until the next reminder.

  30. We planned it, then Debra had herself refreshed from a backup -- no memory of the event, just the Whuffie for me.

  31. She could swap out a dead bot for a backup in five minutes flat, which is all that crowd-control would permit.

  32. I caught her backstage at the Hall of the Presidents, tinkering with Lincoln II, the backup animatronic.

  33. More often, missionaries end up getting refreshed from a backup after they aren't heard from for a decade or so.

  34. I stopped in front of the backup terminal in the gateway between Liberty Square and Fantasyland.

  35. Locating their backup units was a little trickier, but years of hanging out at the Hall of Presidents while Lil tinkered with the animatronics helped me.

  36. In those days, making a backup was a lot more complicated; the procedure took most of a day, and had to be undertaken at a special clinic.

  37. Then it hit me: I'd gone on record refusing restore from backup after having it recommended by a medical professional.

  38. As far as I knew, I'd laid down in the backup clinic one moment and arisen the next.

  39. Unfortunately, that backup is a few months old.

  40. I have a backup in my public directory -- anyone can examine it.

  41. I had prepared a written synopsis of the events since her last backup for her, and she read it over the next couple days.

  42. You were restored from a backup about eight weeks ago, I see.

  43. When they woke, this event -- everything following the backup -- would never have happened for them.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backup" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advocate; alternate; alternative; analogy; backing; backup; champion; change; changeling; comparison; cooperation; copy; counterfeit; deputy; double; dummy; equal; equivalent; exchange; exponent; fake; figurehead; ghost; imitation; lieutenant; makeshift; metaphor; mock; office; personnel; phony; pinch; pleader; procurator; provisional; proxy; recourse; relief; replacement; representative; reserve; reserves; resort; reversal; reverse; reversion; ringer; secondary; sign; spare; sub; substitute; substitution; support; surrogate; symbol; temporary; tentative; token; turnaround; understudy; utility; vicar; vicarious; vice