backdraught BrE
backdraft AmE

The risk of backdraught is higher when the locomotive enters a tunnel because of the pressure shock.

On 6 November 1909 a backdraught from a locomotive firebox enveloped Robert Prior, the train's driver, in flames.

'She hadn't closed the bedroom door and when she opened the window to pass Christopher out it created a backdraught that sucked the fire right through the bedroom.'

Across the world in Singapore, which thought it was heading for a quiet close with only a little backdraught from what had happened in Tokyo, the Straits index was now plummeting too.

As the wave receded all the men leapt ashore, but the backdraught took her into the very curl of the next, which lifted her high and flung her down so hard that it broke her back at once and shattered her timbers.

It is awkward to reconcile this soft-spoken striker, holding forth so earnestly about his happiness at Meadow Lane, with the gaunt figure who, in the summer of 2007, emerged nervously from Staffordshire's Featherstone Prison into a backdraught of public loathing.

If the doors are then opened again, a backdraft can occur.

This backdraft effect is the origin of the drink's name.

"We were going to move 'Backdraft' wherever they moved their show."

"We'd like to take advantage of their backdraft," he said.

They entered the building, but a backdraft explosion forced them back.

"Anchored to the castle, their backdraft might turn it right over."

She was directing her backdraft across the water, by the crude channel.

The danger of this effect was highlighted in the fire hero film Backdraft.

Mike then throws an ash tray at the window, causing a backdraft.

Below is a typical procedure for producing one variation of the Backdraft drink.

The next sound he heard was the explosion, the screaming roar of broken air and burning backdraft.

During the evacuation, a backdraft caused the partial collapse of the second floor ceiling.

Suddenly, the fire burns the warehouse, causing a Backdraft.

Inside the heat and fury of "Backdraft" there seems to be an inspirational commercial yearning to break free.

Instead it joyfully wallows in the backdraft of her excesses.

Additionally, in these conditions, there is a greater risk of backdraft and of flashover.

In the movie, a wily arsonist lays backdraft traps for his victims.

The backdraft from the propeller helped them breathe.

But there's bound to be some backdraft.

And I would acknowledge, intellectually, and not without a backdraft of guilt, that they were good, to her.

The surrounding environment (e.g. the hallway outside the suspected backdraft room) will be extremely hot.

It is believed that his reason for joining the Backdraft Group was influenced by alcoholism.

She leaves the group after her defeat at the hands of Bit, deciding that Backdraft battles are getting old.

This leads to effects like backdraft and flashover.

His first major movie role came as a dialogue coach in the film Backdraft teaching actors to speak with a Chicago accent.