Defenders greeted, sloping off from the front

Usage examples of backswept.

Yuuzhan Vong wore floor-length black robes and a hood that clung to her backswept skull.

He was taller than Sunbright had reckoned, especially with his heavy, gaudy crown with backswept wings of silver.

Two miles from the camp he had seen a flight of birds coming in to the water, flying fast as racing pigeons, whistling in on backswept wings, and he had ducked into a thick bank of reeds and watched them come.

From sharp, backswept horns, to wide, slitted eyes, to fanged mouths, their heads were alien and as purposeful as the pack of beasts that had chased the Heralds across the Plains.

Sometimes she still saw it in her dreams: the white face, almost as tall as she, with its glowing red eyes, backswept fringed ears, and catfish whiskers around the toothy, pointed jaws.

Sighting them in turn, the newcomer reined in behind a fallen log and raised a hand in greeting as they came into hailing distance, then pulled back his hood to reveal a backswept shock of silver hair above sparkling gray eyes, an aquiline nose, and a full silver beard.

The bulbous forward hull was linked to a pair of backswept wings by a long, thin, funnellike neck.

As before, antlers grew from her proudly held head, these backswept like those of a fallow deer.

This was why their skulls were protected by two sets of horns: the bony triangle above each eye that gave the rakish wedge shape to his skull, and the longer backswept curving horns that arced gracefully out behind the first pair.

At forty-nine years of age, General Kenneth Draper-he preferred people to address him as general and not as undersecretary-had a pink-and-white face, thick backswept silver hair, thin lips curving down at the ends, and a pair of light gray eyes, which stared back at the defense secretary with matching intensity.

They came across other horse-like antelope, with backs and limbs of ebony black, bellies of frosty white, and huge backswept scimitar-shaped horns.

She could make out triangular heads crowned by two sets of backswept horns.

He passed people in the outer hallways without wincing from them and headed down the backswept stairway to the second floor where his rooms were.

He wore the latest backswept wig, and his coat was cut velvet, embroidered all over with hundreds of frivolous silk butterflies.