How To Use Forward In A Sentence

  • When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
  • I looking forward to seeing Mark as we've been apart for a few days.
  • Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
  • Lift your feet a few inches off the floor and slowly rock backwards and forwards. Healthy By Nature
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  • But I needed to know who it was so I pulled out a comb and brushed my hair forward a little and put it to the side.
  • With a little coo of happiness he began to toddle forwards into the darkness, still clutching his bottle. MY BABYSITTER BITES BACK
  • I'm looking forward to the Gehry building, though, even though it's been watered down a bit from its original design.
  • They sneak forward to climb up the small gap between the lorry 's cab and trailer. The Sun
  • I'll forward any mail to your new address.
  • To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • I'm sure there will be a generous amount of worthies stepping forward to parse every sentence, on the eternal quest for the definitive admission that it's over.
  • My best wishes for your success in the examination and look forward to hearing in due course that you have passed.
  • Carefully, she moved a hand forward and eased back the white sheets.
  • Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God. David Horowitz Freedom Center
  • I have found that a tool guided by a straight-edge, and "jiggered" backwards and forwards, makes by far the best lines for blind-tool work. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
  • I look forward to seeing the place again, renewing old acquaintances. The Sun
  • His brother Jeremiah played a stormer at corner back and his accurate deliveries to his forwards were one of the highlights of his play.
  • Another step forward was the progressive declarations of invalidity extended to certain laws, decrees, and edicts issued in Stalin's time.
  • Since the path was so narrow that there was no way to reverse, he had no option but to continue moving forward.
  • She learned to scramble around and even run sideways, but not forward.
  • There is grassland on the natural brae of Royal Garden, yellow and green, fighting with the autumn. In this grassland, an alley wanders forward, just like the traces from a big snake' creeping.
  • What could be more straightforward than telling a person he is suspected of a crime?
  • Mack and I dove on the ground and began to crawl forward.
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie
  • Other are supporting the attempt to make it less straightforward to obtain ebooks through a library. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everyone has someone in their life that keeps them looking forward to the next day.
  • ‘Things that we look forward to using from them are commoditized services such as desktop support,’ he explains.
  • So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
  • What about the other evidence about him in the toilet pacing backwards and forwards, with expletives and asking everyone who came in for a line of drugs - speed?
  • I was also forwarded an email from somewhere outside the university.
  • Blue ceanothus look fabulous trained against a tall wall, but over time they will lean forward if you let them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fifteen minutes later centre forward Quigg was left free to hammer the ball home from 20 yards.
  • An objective analogue prediction model of tropical cyclone track is brought forward that considers the synthetical evaluation environment.
  • It is the sinfullest thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. The Essays
  • We're moving forward faster than any country in the world, but for me it's not going fast enough
  • A teenager, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward.
  • I look forward to eting you on your golden wedding anniversary.May you have many gold years.
  • A mantid is the most humanlike of insects; it has its eyes arranged so that it can see forward, allowing it depth perception. The Killing Kind
  • As an example of such a substance one can put forward amino-valeric acid. Albrecht Kossel - Nobel Lecture
  • The offer put forward by the joint agreement includes close control over the number of games players will play. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
  • We so little to change in terms of forward players so we had change the system and, thankfully, worked. The Sun
  • That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
  • Now we had been taken notice of, put forward, and patronized, in undeniably genteel society. Oldtown Folks
  • They are worn to protect the arm from the bowstring as it moves forward after the release.
  • Unless we can supply our forward units, the advance is in danger of running out of steam.
  • The forwards also seemed intent on glory as several rolling mauls were stopped dead in their tracks when the wingers were standing idle and unmarked on the flanks.
  • His efforts have turned up critical leads, brought forward witnesses and suggested potential persons of interest. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the model insists on moving forwards, then rear cyclic trim is needed, etc.
  • They put this view into practice quite straightforwardly, avoided ostentatious clothing and wealth, refused to swear oaths in court, to bear arms or to defend themselves.
  • The patient, priorly known only as "Patient Zeta," came forward Tuesday and called for mandatory condom use in the porn productions. Derrick Burts, HIV-positve porn actor, calls for condom use in industry
  • He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
  • This bill is a good step in the Government's commitment towards greater energy efficiency and a sustainable energy future, and I look forward to its passage through the House.
  • But I have to say, I did fast forward through that dreadful speech by the odious brother and through the drippy prayers from the drippy archbish.
  • I groped for the gear stick, sobbing desperately as the car lurched forward.
  • With referees now bringing the ball forward for indiscipline, mouthy players can cost their team a game, not to mind risking a yellow card and even a sending off.
  • Former Springbok hooker Shaun Povey and scrumming expert Dougie Heymans have also arrived at the camp to assist coaching staff in preparing the forwards.
  • Garden walls and fences may offer protection from cold, but the wind can push forward any shrubs growing against them. Times, Sunday Times
  • It analyses the bone ash disposal ways by entironment theory and takes forward the way that is environmental and fits to our country.
  • Dogs came lunging forward with their fangs bared.
  • The head of the humerus is articulated with its (glenoid?) cavity, by means of a small ligament, and it consists of a rounded epiphysis composed of spongy cartilage, the humerus itself is bent outward and forward, and it is articulated with its (glenoid?) cavity by its side, and not in a straight line. Instruments Of Reduction
  • Devoid of the ceremony and liturgy associated with the Church of England, charismatic itinerants made a straightforward appeal.
  • The fashion-forward actress, who graces the FROW of countless fashion events, showed off her trim figure in a form-fitting number.
  • As the morning slowly crept forward, more and more things began to stir.
  • He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round.
  • I shuffled my hospital armchair forward, across the BUPA contract carpet. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
  • Then the Archbishop of Canterbury stepped forward, mitre and all, and called us, in sonorous tones, to prayer. ANTI-ICE
  • General manager Danny Ferry made a shrewd move in signing the 32-year-old power forward.
  • Swing the near leg forward and backward. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had to bring forward an 11 o'clock meeting so that he could get to the funeral on time.
  • We look forward to seeing the expression of the first big-time criminal as his ill-gotten gains are snatched away from him.
  • He gently opened the throttle, and the ship began to ease forward.
  • Hurry forward there, please—there are people waiting behind you.
  • John lunged forward and grabbed him by the throat.
  • The dichotomy between “forwardness” and “backwardness” is a scale constructed and enforced by the civilizer to validate his civilizing/colonial project. Hartzell and Lin lose on appeal
  • Ideas put forward yesterday for future use of new technology included allowing parents to check online whether their children are truanting, increasing online tax payments and more use of computers in the health service.
  • This lays the ground for suggesting some means to move forward in the debate.
  • Plans to turn a town centre into an alcohol-free zone have taken a giant step forward.
  • It was a pretty straightforward plan. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hip-hop rose in urban centers, launched by breakdancers and carried forward by emcees, DJs and graffiti artists.
  • She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
  • The club is now looking forward to the forthcoming Wharfedale Championships and is hoping to shatter last year's record trophy haul.
  • Some units deploy their scouts forward, while others do not.
  • Chapter four put forward the whole idea of building the way of right of social assistance.
  • Pope Honorius, the third of that name, forbade by a decretal from that time forward the method of choosing bishops by lot. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Which obseruances and ceremonies performed and brought to end, they returned streightwaies to their ships, and as soone as the wind served, passed forward on their iournie with great ioy and gladnesse, as men put in comfort to find out the wished seats for their firme and sure Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)
  • The crew braces for shock, the boat shudders and a giant plume of boat wash is the only mark left in the faint moonlight as the boat races forward into harm's way.
  • Pinpointing the source of crosslinguistic influences in the interlanguage of a multilingual speaker is less straightforward.
  • The girl cast another glance behind, took a deep breath and stepped forward.
  • He slumped forward, the knife buried deep in his chest.
  • The three-layer system architecture of conflict detection based on fuzzy constraint network is put forward. A corresponding prototype is developed and its running process is described.
  • Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never he called again. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend
  • The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.
  • Then lunge forwards with one leg. The Sun
  • Less intellect, more instinct is the way forward. Times, Sunday Times
  • This no mail lark is really wearing, I hadn't realised quite how much I look forward to arriving home from work and finding out which books have arrived in the post. 48 entries from October 2007
  • What you are putting forward is a pluralistic, 'there is no real right and wrong' sort of view.
  • All of which begs the question as to whether or not somebody SHOULD make a MMORPG based on the Wheel of Time series, though if they do I look forward to a variety of braid tugging and skirt smoothing emotes along with an "agelessness" slider in the character creation tool. The Ancient Gaming Noob
  • Rather than being victim to this silly debate, we should move forward and embrace this interesting and fun addition to sex.
  • He is set to be hit by the new sentence just as he looks forward to getting parole. The Sun
  • While some looked forward to that first wild week, just as many dreaded it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Certainly not establishing any huge steps forward for the aeronautical field, the specification called for a robust aircraft that could operate from the catapults being carried by the battleships and cruisers of the day.
  • Thereupon Shawahi came forward and kissing the ground before the Queen, took the hem of her garment and laid it on her head, saying, O Queen, by my claim for fosterage, be not hasty with him, more by token of thy knowledge that this poor wretch is a stranger, who hath adventured himself and suffered what none ever suffered before him, and Allah (to whom belong Might and The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • One should neither look forward to coming experiences, nor clutch at present ones, but let them all slip easily through one's fingers.
  • Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes. The Guardian World News
  • The fourth locale, Massachusetts, permitted a medical monitoring claim to move forward, but only because the tobacco plaintiffs in that lawsuit presented expert evidence regarding "subcellular" or other physiological changes. Law.com - Newswire
  • Instead, Intel's supporters rallied around to attack Cuomo and the case, putting forward a number of arguments that they believe exculpated the technology pioneer.
  • We look forward to your lecture with eager anticipation.
  • The camcorder winds the tape back or forward at high speed.
  • As with this hero, so with others, till Peggy came to look forward, actually, to the history hour; which shows what a teacher can do when she understands her girls, and knows enough to call Plutarch and his peers (if any!) to aid her in her task. Peggy
  • Traditionally golf has kept the sexes apart, sometimes for misogynist reasons, but more often because women cannot hit the ball as far as men, and have courses set up accordingly, with the ladies' tees further forward than the men's.
  • You simply use a split stance - your feet spaced about hip-width apart, one foot forward, the other behind you.
  • Tournament organisers have brought forward play in the final round by one hour as they attempt to protect what should be a great spectacle from the showery weather which is forecast for later in the day.
  • Inside, it takes a big jump forward with a cabin featuring new instruments which look good enough for a sporty coupé. The Sun
  • Sydney Roosters utility forward Michael Crocker pressed his claims for Test selection with two of the Kangaroos' six tries tries.
  • She ran forward and quickly undid the shackles on his wrists and ankles.
  • Could you run the tape/film/video back/forwards, please?
  • Forward transactions are economically similar to exchange-traded futures contracts.
  • A long screech was followed by a thud as a matronly passenger tumbled forward, breaking her arm.
  • Ethan Hawke rubbed the scruff on his chin and leaned forward in his chair for emphasis.
  • The cylinder incorporates a central spring loaded bushing that permits the cylinder to move forward and backward.
  • Fast-forward and rewind buttons on all transport toolbars throughout the application now auto-repeat. KVR News: Top Stories
  • Both can turn that most tedious of old rugby clichés on its head; that forwards win matches and backs decide by how much. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ball ballooned forward and Wells took the return catch.
  • I look forward to your advice in due course and hopefully a more colourful life.
  • The forward march of the publication saw it become a fully-fledged, full-grown newspaper in March of 2002.
  • The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable. Leviathan
  • Instead of attending, I thought heavily about throwing things at the hearse as this would at least have been straight-forwardly and honestly disrespectful. And for my next trick……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • The collision allowed tons of water to flood several compartments in the forward section of the ship, including missile and gun magazines and a junior rates' mess.
  • Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning: they could not anticipate stability in government programs.
  • The design method of torque converter blade based on quadratic function distribution momentum was put forward.
  • Plant leans forward, vast swathes of hair tumbling down on either side of his weathered face. Times, Sunday Times
  • But when Troy made its strategy of forward defense work, the Greeks employed a counterstrategy of slow strangulation. The Trojan War
  • Both aircraft are moving at around 50 km/h forward and the downwash of the helicopter is further back.
  • Only one phaser is inoperative, which means, offensively, the ship is almost totally effective, but defensively its lack of forward shielding makes the vessel incredibly vulnerable.
  • To get first gear you had to go into second gear first and then shove it forwards hard. Times, Sunday Times
  • It puts forward the idea that Earth is a globular allium and "pain and fear" are the lachrymatory agents that provoke all the tears. Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results
  • Result: Uncertainty in each ponderance were analyzed and put forward combined standard uncertainty resides of the method.
  • It is fairly straightforward and easy with all the information found on the website. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘This reflects well on the overall strategy we have put forward over the past decade which has transformed our economy,’ Minister Martin said.
  • As well as financial contributions, the group is urging volunteer gardeners to come forward or offer donations of gardening tools and equipment.
  • This is a pretty straight-forward and self-explanatory clause, but it's important none the less.
  • A long line of traffic edged its way forward.
  • Her chin was thrust forward aggressively.
  • To move forward, the gripman squeezes the grip which grasps the moving cable under the slot in the street. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • It's just a straightforward almost glam stomp about being angry. The Sun
  • I also look forward to independent verification - or not - of the claims made by companies that sell us green products. Times, Sunday Times
  • Can the car seat be slid forward a little?
  • She pitched forward, twisted and ended up on the infield grass, in tears.
  • Beside us, a Forward Air Controller uses a powerful periscope to pinpoint enemy targets over the sandbagged rim of the observation post.
  • Roy Round, whose dance photographs fill this handsome volume, is at his best when he is straightforward, when the subject seems to emerge from luminous, unpunctuated space, and when the challenge of pure movement is palpable.
  • So for me, becoming an observant Jew was a straightforward transition.
  • Once the boom mic is out of the way and not likely to clonk me on the head (and it's happened too many times to count), I take a step forward.
  • The big forward gives them so much in and around the box, particularly aerially. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is particularly so since he is now putting himself forward as a candidate for national office as the champion of the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
  • The vocal writing ranges between straightforward singing, Sprechstimme, and speech, depending on the dramatic role that the music must play.
  • I'm on the money train now and am looking forward to a modestly superannuated future.
  • Now the leadership wants to look forward, and to outline a strategy for the rest of the century.
  • He is not only the speed, but also lies in whether we can continue; forward lies not only in speed, but also lies in whether we can maintain the correct direction.
  • Tip your hair forwards and tie into a high ponytail. The Sun
  • In a bunt, the aircraft experiences a rapid, uncontrolled, tight forward pitching rotation.
  • This situation was detestably rectified, as could be clearly seen in face as she jarred forward.
  • I'll do my best to keep the overall design and function clean and simple but I'm looking forward to getting properly to grips with the new methodology.
  • Albert steps forward and swings the book in a roundhouse.
  • At exactly eleven, the center forwards, Blossom and Veronica, began the bully-off. A Popular Schoolgirl
  • Why, if Ponce de Leon had found the fountain of youth and drunk of it as bibulously as we are apt to guzzle the cup of achievement, he would not only have arrested the forward march of time, but would have over-reached himself and slipped backward through the years of his age to become a chronic infant in arms. The Joyful Heart
  • The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
  • Over six years ago, the Association put forward proposals, which would rank farmers as preferential creditors for agricultural produce supplied by them.
  • The charity will forward the letters to the foreign embassies to make them aware of the level of public support for the drivers.
  • Three cars forward the steward unlocks the kitchen, the pantryman begins to prepare bread and muffins, and Ashby's Tavern awakens for breakfast.
  • Of course, new shows in developement are still going forward. Tube Bits for 01/21/2008
  • For all their rejoicing, these women did not look forward to imprisonment!
  • But going forward they are a nigh on unstoppable force. The Sun
  • At 193 centimetres, with a huge leap and a booming kick, it was believed that the young star would slot neatly into a key forward post with the Blues.
  • It is an image of a sleek chrome bullet-train of genre dragging up dead leaves and detritus from the mainstream tracks as it rockets relentlessly forward. Why Do I Infernokrush?
  • Anthony remained standing, gazing at a large, smouldering log that looked poised to roll forward undesirably. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • Seeing the potential of its software besmirching the Symantec name irreparably, Symantec's CEO surged forward with a new plan: re-write its security software to make it the best in the industry, so as to super-strengthen its stranglehold on the summit of sales supremacy while swiftly swinging its way back into the good books of consumers. ITWire - Latest Headlines
  • If the team wants to progress and make leaps forward then I will be very happy to keep working on the project.
  • The VPR is common software for the FPGA placement and routing. It puts forward a comprehensive method of FPGA placement and routing solution. Simulated annealing algorithm is applied to VPR.
  • In this sense, can we say that the dismissal of Schoenberg et al had its roots in a sort of century-long "me, me, me, emotive"/composer-becoming-the-subject of historical inquiry -- where the "forward looking" or the "next new thing" was the prescient objective -- came to a violent collision with the unfamiliar, one which is unreconcilable with nostalgia? Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep
  • There is no ebb and flow in his metre more than on the shores of the Adriatic, but wave follows wave with equable gainings and recessions, the one sliding back in fluent music to be mingled with and carried forward by the next. Among My Books Second Series
  • In 2002, when Sullivan was 15, things took what seemed to be a queen-size leap forward - an A&R rep from Jive Records caught one of Sullivan's Lily performances, which led to the label signing the then-sophomore to a deal. Undefined
  • Or, reading autois, and referring the word to the Persians: 'who, looking to advantage, forwarded the course of the invader.' The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • William was taken aback by the girl's forwardness.
  • The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
  • Your Honour, from my perspective I am trying to understand the arbitrary and capricious argument that my learned friends are putting forward.
  • He rocked the cradle with a gentle backwards and forwards motion.
  • Just fast forward the video.
  • With a thudding heart, I took a few steps forward and then overbalanced.
  • Because in a dynamic loosely coupled system where code is a resource like any other it is very straight forward to create processes that dynamically generate code.
  • Hundreds of male onlookers surged forward, collapsing the barriers all along the race track.
  • We launched a pilot project for a new rural pension insurance system in 30 counties - a historic step forward in the development of China's social security system.
  • Still, despite these many disappointments, Nice does look like producing some modest steps forward in joint policy and decision-making.
  • Twenty eight acres was set aside for a reserve by the forward looking Hawera Town Board in 1875.
  • Slumping forward onto the gigantic gadget, he mumbled, Good luck finding enough ice for hockey on this dustball. Reap the Whirlwind
  • The "gharry" makes an excellent perambulating studio -- it is a small, high, wooden cab, with little lattice shutters instead of glass which pull up all round so that you can let down those you need for view, aft or forward, or at either side, and pull up the others and thus have privacy and light and air, and you need no stove or hot pipes, for you could roast a partridge inside! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah

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