In a sentence
Six example sentences with backup, each labelled with its topic.
A jackknifed lorry created a backup eleven miles long, and drivers switched off their engines to wait.
Travel
A blockage in the building's main stack sent a backup into three ground-floor flats before the plumber arrived.
Architecture
Storm debris jammed the culvert and the backup pushed brown water across the footpath into the meadow.
Environment
A strike at the port created a backup of two hundred container ships, and shelf prices rose within a month.
Economics
When the fryer went down a backup of tickets grew on the rail and the expediter started calling out apologies.
Cooking
A kidney stone blocked the ureter and the backup of urine behind it swelled the kidney within hours.
Medicine
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