Certain squash shot

Usage examples of backhand.

Ron and Mark shouted commands: bend at the knees, racket up, keep your wrist firm, swing low to high, take it on the rise, crosscourt, down the line, now backhands.

Ecator came up and whirled through spears, horses, and imps in a lightning-fast forehand and backhand riposte.

Burthong swung a backhand return and then clobbered the leatherback with the edge of his shield.

Southpaw, one-hander off the backhand side, a serve Donnie Stott likes to clock with radar, and chart.

Bartlett took a step forward and lifted his arm to backhand the Negress but found himself under attack instead by Heather who struck him hard across the face.

His long red hair swirled with the violence of the strokes as his long sword hacked forehand and backhand.

With a fist clenched tightly around his pride, Aidan backhanded his little brother to the ground.

Sensing the touch, Magichunger flailed the sword backhand, even as he scrambled by.

There is a sort of backhanded admission of this in the dislike which nearly all foreigners feel for our national way of life.

His fellow passengers laugh as the golf cart overturns on a slope and the woman skids down after it, her arm slowly raising to deliver a backhanded slash.

He moved across the dirt and weeds, kicking up dust, purposely delaying his break for the ball so that he could make an over-the-shoulder or backhand catch.

The goon stepped in front of Indy and backhanded him twice across the face.

He lumbered back across the feast hall, slashing backhanded behind him twice on the way, and mounted the stairs where Tarthane lay crumpled and the tapestry was rippling slowly and wearily.

He backhanded her almost casually, and the strength of the blow threw her backwards.

We may also consider the primitive aspirated consonants kh, th, ph, pronounced more or less as in as in backhand, outhouse, scrap-heap (to borrow my own examples from Lesson One).