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moving from one place to another and back again
he traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York
the old man just sat on the porch and rocked back and forth all day
the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner
How To Use back and forth In A Sentence
- When the dork came to bat, he was waving the bat back and forth with the label aimed straight at the pitcher. WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
- The bed stood in one corner, a rough wooden frame hooked to the wall and ropes looping back and forth to support a mattress. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
- He describes himself sitting in a room with five children, aged ten to twelve, showing them a Taiwanese water dipping bird toy -- the little chotchke that tips back and forth into a well of water as though it's drinking. Susan Stiffelman: Education, Seth Godin, Factory Workers and the Taiwanese Water Bird
- Her breathing sounded more like hyperventilating as she paced back and forth.
- She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
- This can cause the players' strategies to oscillate back and forth indefinitely.
- Personally, I think it is very fortuitous that this kind of hankering back and forth and subtle "adjustments" of positions this earrly is good for th candidates. McCain And Obama Battle It Out Over Supreme Court Handgun Decision
- As I trolled back and forth in the microfiche looking for the relevant piece, I was struck by the other things the chattering classes brayed five years ago.
- He went to sleep listening to fighters flying back and forth overhead.
- There are a handful of real tech stormers (like "A Roboter"), a handful of really pretty, nearly beatless minimal compositions (see "Awaking Naked"), and another few, like this one, that find the line between the two and hop back and forth between both worlds. Slippy (Music (For Robots))