ADVERB
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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 backward and forward In A Sentence
- an owl's versatile toe can move backward and forward
- Their services are clock like, to be set backward and forward at their lord's command.
- Hicks splinters his story into little shards as he jumps artily backward and forward in time. A Blue Christmas
- Point of Light, the centre of a future universe, a Unit, in whom all exists inseparate; the matter which is to form the universe, the field of His work, is marked out by the backward and forward vibration of the Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries
- Dollington, which was the old London road from Gylingden, was pacing backward and forward under the towering files of beech that overarch it at that point. Wylder's Hand
- I know how to tie my knots backward and forward, in the dark and in the rain, and how to provide a safe belay for my partner.
- She found the whole business of arguing backward and forward about the same detail utterly boring.
- Their services are clock like, to be set backward and forward at their lord's command.
- Some boring shellfish bore with chemistry, but the American piddock is a mechanical borer repetitively grinding its shell with a rotating movement backward and forward to create a burrow for itself in softer substrates in the shallows of the intertidal zones.
- Women in cowgirl dresses sway to the music, mouthing the words as they step backward and forward in unison on the stage. Thai Noon
