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How to use backstop in a sentence

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The legislation would strengthen the federal backstop to private pension plans by raising corporate contributions to a fund.
He found that with an earthen backstop and overhead baffles angled at 90 degrees, rounds were escaping the range facility.
You don't need the Library of Congress to build a bookshelf that can also serve as a backstop or a cover point.
It sports a permanent, easy-to-see bullseye emblazoned on its durable nylon casing, and has a handy loop for hanging in front of a safe backstop.
Keep the muzzle pointed at a backstop which would stop a bullet without endangering anyone.
The main difference between the two is that bocce is played on a hard surface court with a backstop at each end.
It rained so hard the stream near the baseball field behind the backstop rose high enough to cover home plate!
Taylor didn't chase after the ball which rolled to the backstop behind home plate.
We'd stand at home plate facing the backstop, and he'd give us five pitches per turn.
The veteran backstop has learned to take the fierce body blows of his position philosophically.
I was backstop at rounders and had to retrieve the ball from a nearby horses' field.
In domain B, the viscous substrate was displaced by the moving backstop and accumulated as a thick wedge against the frontal ramp.
So all the things the Senate has been trying to do to try to backstop our national labs seem to have been for naught to date.
The Army was in no position whatsoever to backstop a get-tough policy of containment vis-a-vis the Soviets.
To entice insurers to provide higher protection limits, the industry wants the federal government to backstop its unlimited liability.
The typical indoor range has concrete floors and a steel backstop, and attracts blue-collar males almost exclusively.
Either way, the First Amendment stands as an effective backstop to the copyright clause argument.
Teaching is always sitting there as a backstop, and so if it doesn't work, its not a crisis.
That the corporate tax serves as a backstop against sheltering income is probably the strongest reason today for keeping the tax.
What matters is that it's understandable and can act as a backstop for a whole raft of specific tax cutting measures favored by conservatives.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It facilitates the game if the end of each court may be a wall or fence, and thus make sort of a backstop behind the goal.
Still, it was unusual, and the lieutenant who served as combination secretary and backstop for oratory quaked as he listened.
He gave a signal to the backstop, and then sent in an outcurve, which the batter swung at in vain.
Since the warning he had used the horizon as a backstop for all his shots.
Joe called out to the veteran catcher, who was acting as his backstop.
Hinsdale was a good backstop, but his throwing to second was erratic.
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