ADVERB
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alternately upward and downward
he eyed him up and down -
moving backward and forward along a given course
all up and down the Eastern seaboard
he walked up and down the locker room
How To Use up and down In A Sentence
- Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
- Originating in the early 1970's, these were the workhorses of BC's big wood logging operations up and down the coastland.
- Then he looked me up and down as if it wouldn't work a footrule hard to measure me. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond
- He swept his hands up and down the smooth sides, trying to find a notch or groove.
- He was tittupping up and down on his little feet in front of them. The Years
- My little daughter started jumping up and down with rage when she heard she couldn't go.
- caulked," that is, split longitudinally and turned up and down. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings.
- He thought the highs and lows of the business cycle would be far more extreme and short-lived than in the past, with sharp spikes up and down.
- He gave me an once-over, slowly letting his gaze survey me up and down, and I felt my cheeks heat up, regretting my stupid retort.