Examples of 'backfiring' in a sentence
Meaning of "backfiring"
backfire (verb): To have an unintended negative effect, usually in response to an action or decision. When a plan or strategy backfires, it results in the opposite outcome than intended, often causing problems or setbacks
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- present participle of backfire
- A failure that leads to further misfortune.
- The occurrence of a backfire.
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It could end up backfiring on you in the future.
I definitely did not see that one backfiring.
Probably a car backfiring or your imagination.
And now your little plan is backfiring.
It will end up backfiring on us for sure.
Everything she does for someone ends up backfiring.
Ended up backfiring badly against those who initiated it.
It is the same old piece of backfiring junk.
Their lies are backfiring and the truth is being revealed.
Sounded like an air compressor was backfiring.
Too bad it is backfiring on them.
Your crusade for the little guy is backfiring.
It will end up backfiring on them.
Then you start getting that uncontrollable backfiring.
Backfiring of the niqab issue.
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Top cop surrenders to backfiring car.
The chances of this backfiring on you personally need serious consideration.
It was probably just an animal or a truck backfiring.
Things are backfiring for me.
Those things have a way of backfiring.
The backfiring missile.
The smoke thing is really backfiring.
Sabotage and the backfiring engine were ruled out as being highly unlikely.
My great idea to drive cool cars was backfiring.
Some car backfiring.
But your plans always have a way of backfiring.
It keeps backfiring on me.
Now says he thinks it was a car backfiring.
The backfiring beetle does not use his rear end for tapping.
That it was just his car backfiring.
The sound of a muffler backfiring from one of the cars at the scene.
You just did not quite realize it was backfiring on you.
This is backfiring and leaving the US out of trade.
The sound of a car backfiring occurs.
He would know the difference between gunshots and backfiring.
I did not want it backfiring on me.
He figures the bang that he just heard was just a car backfiring.
This was backfiring.
But what appeared to be a privilege is backfiring.
Yet the policy is backfiring on the US and badly hurting the world.
My telling you you are pretty seems to be backfiring badly.
I know a horse backfiring when I hear one.
It was probably just a car backfiring.
Backfiring I have not gone this fast in years.
His political calculations keep backfiring.
Is backfiring because Matt and Jack are drinking us dry.
And this oversight is backfiring on her.
In the detonation cycle, it is a labyrinth which acts to prevent backfiring.
Revving and backfiring.
Passing sight alone when buying furnishings can end up truly backfiring.
