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.
She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings. Maid in Waiting
This child spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, trailing his father up and down the hills, watching him swim in San Francisco Bay, and cringing from the blows that a drunken dad might aim at his head. Robert Frost
I looked him up and down, taking in the unshaven cheeks, the missing button on his shirt, the ratty cuffs on his jeans. NO BODY
an insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally
So I began running up and down the court pigeon-toed, just like Dominique, hoping that would make me an ethereal dunker. In the Time of Bobby Cox
The throttle twist grip on the end of the collective stick has to be coordinated with the up and down movements.
The hawkers, or dragon nymphs are longer and thinner and they patrol up and down looking out for prey on which to swoop.
Gum Boots would have swallowed if he could have stopped his Adam's apple from rushing up and down his neck.
The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers. The Baronet's Bride
The words spoke truth; shivered up and down inside her, earthing right down to the OK Corral.
And then you get to something a little bit bigger than that, then you get this stovepipe, which is straight up and down onto the ground, a very dangerous, probably 130, 140-mile-per-hour tornado. CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2008
The lights up and down the street fizzled and popped, their sparks the last bit of light on a suddenly darkened street.
Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings.
She got us to make posters advertising our search and marched us up and down the village streets with our posters and sticky tape. Times, Sunday Times
Whilst the traditional different places of employment obviously differ (from, the smell of the "briny" with a cooking range being pitched up and down with the ship by the waves; to the unwanted inclusion of sand, leaves and insects in the field; to the salubrious comfort of an air base), the core skills, role and esprit must be common throughout the three Services. Army Rumour Service
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Cows swayed slowly in their sleep, a horse whinnied in its dream, and chickens bobbed up and down up in their nests atop rafters.
When perched on shrubs, it often pumps its tail up and down like a phoebe.
Much is riding on the new one-day format's capacity to attract young and old to a version of the game which is played midweek up and down the country in club cricket but has never before been offered up as a county crowd-puller.
As I made my way back to my car, a dog fox trotted across the road in front of me, stopped, looked me up and down and then carried on, completely unconcerned.
For years I have been dodging surfboards and sailboards, jumping up and down to signal my presence as they come bearing down on me, then diving out of their way at the last moment.
Rather than moving forward while flapping their wings up and down like a bird, flies hover while beating their wings back and forth.
He would get overexcited, jumping up and down, screaming at the screen. The Sun
I looked her up and down unconcernedly, say: " Picture, it is a bad apple nevertheless.
So I began running up and down the court pigeon-toed, just like Dominique, hoping that would make me an ethereal dunker. In the Time of Bobby Cox
Right across Berkshire, the combine harvesters are out forging their paths up and down, along and across the hayfields.
Big girl as she was, Minnie always dressed her, and she would scriggle her toes so her stockings wouldn't go on, and would hop up and down so the buttons wouldn't button. The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day
The only exercise I get is walking up and down the beach and, of course, surfing.
On top there was the firemen, and what we called the hoist engineer (he run the bucket, the scooping bucket up and down, you know, in the mine), and a blacksmith, and a blacksmith's helper. Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
The animal, being unable to advance, was lifting his legs up and down (doing the _piaffer_), and sighing and groaning in agony. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
The captain paced restlessly up and down, pausing occasionally to survey the vagrant smoke wisps and to trace them back to the portions of the deck from which they sprang. THE SEED OF McCOY
Vandy hurried up and down a rolling ladder with various bolts of cloth, putting one back almost as soon as she pulled it out.
On the lower tier to the left of the tach is a needle that swings up and down between blue at the top and green at the bottom to let the driver know when the battery is expending power or getting a regenerative charge. Mississauga News
Ellery wandered up and down, picking up shells and sea clams, and peering through the nets of the nearest weir at the "horsefoot crabs" and squid and flounders imprisoned in the pound. Keziah Coffin
The headpieces, which looked like mops, draped from the heads of the revellers, bounced up and down as they moved across the stage.
Several of the men were there standing about the square iron-bound box attached by a wire rope to a wheel overhead, and known as the skep, which, with another, would be the conveyances of the ore that was to be found, from deep down in the mine to the surface, or, as the miners termed it, to grass; and until the man-engine was finished this was the ordinary way up and down. Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea
‘The fire brigade went up and down in their skylift several times and removed the loose stones very courageously,’ he said.
Christine's eyes were on him, looking him up and down with the same speculative gaze he'd favored her with, and again he wondered how deep she was with Charles.
He sees no reason to stop now I had spent the previous night galumphing gracelessly up and down the village hall of Strathmiglo, in the heart of the Howe of Fife.
He was sitting on a bench, he was jumping up and down while watching a monitor. The Sun
Within five minutes a male purple emperor cruised up and down the forest track at great speed, obviously seeking a newly emerged female. Times, Sunday Times
Window cleaners are pulled up and down tall buidings on cradles.
The icefall created waves as tall as 11.5 feet, which swept up and down the lake for 30 minutes. Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps more; shears ice from glacier
I was most overwhelmed and went to bed having nightmares about socked feet walking up and down my naked body shouting knit one purl one faster faster…
Tugging at her mane of red-gold hair she turned on her heel and looked Paula up and down.
Different sweeps - sideways, front and back, or up and down - each alter different musical attributes.
It was easier to see Frankie jumping up and down in a mosh pit than plodding around in Vince's arms to a dreamy Anita Baker love song. FLIGHT LESSONS
Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, brutalism and postmodernist junk.
( "splay" them out, side to side, then shape them up and down after that). Planet Haskell
Casting off the shore lines, I kedged her out by main strength, (the windlass being broken), till she rode nearly up and down to the small anchor -- too small to hold her in any breeze. Chapter 36
'She'd have been just the thing for me!' cried Lynmere, haughtily rising, and conceitedly parading his fine form up and down the room; his eyes catching it from looking-glass to looking glass, by every possible contrivance; 'just the thing! matched to perfection!' Camilla
His head nodded up and down in time with my oscillating hand. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Twisting and spinning up and down the rope, he whooshed a few feet above the audience's heads.
While this lengthy retrieval process was being effected, the batsmen were trotting up and down at their leisure to compile the 47 runs necessary for victory. Great Sporting Failures
Stir and wash laundry up and down with stirring pulsator.
Having said that, unless you are happy spending a day being bounced up and down in a pronouncedly uncomfortable ‘hard seat’, booking sleeper tickets in advance for about 100 yuan is a good idea.
He crossed his well toned arms as looked her up and down, and made no move to hide his snicker.
In one aborted poem I explored the feeling by examining the way a tuning circuit hunts up and down its scale to locate and fix on a signal.
Of course, when working at a major swim meet, I'm usually going to be constantly walking up and down many flights of stairs from the pool deck to the media tribune for several days straight.
He picked up the cordless from my desk and began tossing it up and down.
When waves cause the coil to move up and down relative to the fixed magnetic shaft, voltage is induced and electricity is generated.
For example, ground birds can usually only walk horizontally on the ground whereas woodpeckers climb up and down vertically on tree trunks.
Their bodies continually going up and down upon perpetual fluxion, they never could live if their minds did the same, like the minds of stationary landsmen. Mary Anerley
Almost 32, he pushes himself through one of the toughest regimes on the tour, dashing up and down hills before pumping iron and spending hours on the practice court.
She pinwheeled end-over-end and out of sight as I hopped up and down, holding my right foot and grimacing like Oliver Hardy.
You don't want us to pace endlessly up and down the hallway, drinking putrid coffee in paper cups and looking forlorn?
We did a couple runs up and down the country road, and two laps around town.
It's a trend that has given a new lease of life to neglected race tracks and disused airfields up and down the country and boosted rural employment. Times, Sunday Times
Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
As the plane was tossed up and down, the pilot tried to stabilise it.
I walked up and down the aisle to stretch my cramped muscles.
Robin ducked out to look up and down the hall, then brushed past Feng as she hurried back inside. Excerpt: Intuition by Allegra Goodman
She then frowned and upraised an eye brow as she looked me up and down.
But within that period, the price of a gilt may move up and down depending on what else is happening to interest rates.
Halbert was aye skipping up and down like a roo, and his brother used to sit in the chimney nook with his book and sic-like trash -- But the lad was like a loaded hackbut, which will stand in the corner as quiet as an old crutch until ye draw the trigger, and then there is nothing but flash and smoke. The Monastery
With play moving fast up and down field the defences on each side were getting the better of the forward lines.
Eventually I got to drive one of the motor boats up and down the river, to Bishopthorpe Palace and Nun Monkton.
To browse the groups, click inside the Newsgroups window and scroll up and down using your arrow keys or mouse wheel.
When the fire's good and hot, run the allium up and down the grates with a fork to remove the residue. The Big Grill
Arpeggios of diminished 7ths rushing up and down the keyboard are the main - indeed the only - motive in this bravura piece.
When a person carries a loaded backpack, the pack too moves up and down the same distance at the same time.
Glass is a heavy material and sliding the sashes up and down also puts a strain on the joints.
I've been really up and down, and this keeps up I'm starting my depakote again. Mesocyclone Diary Entry
The fixed-base router, the router in its most basic form, puts a universal motor in a convenient holder that allows the chuck and bit to be adjusted up and down.
One person's yawn is another person's chills up and down the spine. Day trip to Mexico City
My eyes disobediently traveled him up and down before I slid out the door.
I could imagine children leaping up and down while their parents lit up the crackers on rooftops.
Using a search pattern up and down the slope, the radar should be able to detect filled-in trenches from variations in earth density. Parker, Richard H.
Many beaters like to carry their own stick, to help them get up and down banks, as well as for beating the undergrowth.
Jealous of her. I bet it really got him going seeing my little pink dimples bobbing up and down there.
Running a candle flame up and down a twisted piece of dry hair. Times, Sunday Times
A later invention, the unicycle with an off-centre hub, would bring people out into the corridors to watch him as he rode it, bobbing up and down like a duck.
The fire safety curtain would come up and down during shows and asbestos would be released. Times, Sunday Times
Then the bunniah began running his thumb quickly up and down the fingers of his right hand, and his lips moved in quick calculation. The Olive Fairy Book
To enhance control and fun on curvy roads, move the shifter to manual mode and slap it up and down through six distract ratios like the best manu-matic.
Up and down, forward and back are no longer either-or decisions but are all potential energies radiating from the figure. The Times Literary Supplement
If there were too much light she would naturally see the reptile slithering up and down the bell-pull, and make too correct an identification.
It may seem tame in this context to devote time and technical skill to throwing up perfect spheres of glass in a vacuum and timing their passage up and down past two pairs of slits.
The foot is not fully pointed-straight up and down, with the toes aiming directly to the floor; it is angled or slanted back, in a beveled position.
The band sounded great and played what we needed to hear from the Blue album, but what kept everyone in the stadium excited was the "where is Rivers" game as he danced and ran through the crowd, climbing on top of portable buildings andup and down the stadium bleachers, with security and a bright spotlight trying to keep with him. Three Imaginary Girls - Seattle's sparkly indie-pop press
At that time faddists of various persuasions proliferated up and down the Village: anarchists who dutifully went home every night to their mothers’ kitchens, a Hungarian monarchist with his own following, free-verse poets who eschewed capital letters, cultists who sat rapturously for hours in orgone boxes, cloudy Swedenborgians, and all the rest. What Happened to the Baby?
He said: ‘The lift is not suitable for carting beds up and down and there is no defibrillation equipment which is essential in case there is an emergency.’
Unfortunately we, the English, will never be the people to teach her; because she is a chartered libertine allowed to say and do anything she likes, from demanding the head of the empress in an editorial waste-basket, to chevying Canadian schooners up and down the Alaska Seas. American Notes
Hold the club out in front of you, chest high, before you hit every shot, and make sure the clubface is aligned straight up and down.
And the reverberations of that would be felt up and down the food chain.
It's easy to while away a whole day just walking up and down the beach, exploring the many makeshift stalls where vendors sell everything from tropical-hued pareos to homemade coconut bread.
Up and down the country, arts faculties swarm with undergraduates pretending to be overeducated comedians pretending to be in-bred shopkeepers with little piggy noses.
Tonight, she goes on a journey to show how regional flavours of the Indian subcontinent can be found up and down the country. Times, Sunday Times
Umaid Hospital was about to descend into crisis: Up and down the maternity ward, new mothers were mysteriously starting to die.
The simple meeting-place is formed with several desks, where we are surrounded, is permeated with dynamics as well as harmonious note moves up and down.
Your hired motor boat is bobbing up and down at anchor, occasionally nudging the pebbles on the beach as a bigger wave breaks.
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You always see him with his children and his wife; he drives her and her baby up and down along the only carriageable road of Lucca: so set down that piece of domestic life on the bright side in the broad charge against married authors; now do. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The letter went on to complain of paper boys yelling out the news, musicians disturbing whole neighbourhoods, and drunks “who choose to sing and holloa up and down our streets and squares.” Sounds of Victorian London
The voice lilted playfully, running up and down his spine, as sensual as a warm hand. One Night in Scotland
I got to the door, got the cursory glance up and down, and was admitted to the hedonistic multi-level entertainment palace that is the Shed.
The dorsal and anal fins, which push the fish along, are way off the central axis of its body, yet the animal swims a straight path without rocking up and down.
It's very hard to turn the wick up and down.
The leaves of the giant rubber plants bounce up and down.
Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings.
Print dances up and down before me, redolent of meaning, but not yet, not yet. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
The bright beam of a floodlight sprang out and flickered up and down the length of our vessel, examining us.
The lift itself was fine; I could hear it chugging up and down the shaft, and the door on the inside was certainly sliding open with the familiar crunch, but there was no way I could actually get in.
This expression clearly shows that the magnetoresistance effect arises from the difference between the resistance behaviour of the spin up and down electrons.
Then he sat down, put Amanda on his knee, and bounced her up and down.
Up and down, shifting and tilting, suddenly spinning when I least expect it -- at no time have I even had the chance to sit back and enjoy the thing without worrying what may be coming with the next gyration. The Challenge of A Bend in the Road
Although boats chugged up and down the water on a regular basis (the river was a designated highway), road access was limited.
He considered going to drama school but ended up at Glasgow School of Art in 1968, which must have been a pretty good year to go schlepping up and down Sauchiehall Street with paint on your flares.
Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.
There is an almost endless stream of Con loving chunder heads with their hackles all raised, swearing up and down that this is desperation. Archive 2008-04-01
It must have needed a crew of at least a hundred to run properly, and surely there were more than that because Lily could almost count the fifty deckhands running up and down the length of the ship in preparation to dock.
Voices still chattered in the hallway, doors squeaked open, slammed shut, feet thumped, tramped up and down the stairs.
From time to time one of those floats is bobbing up and down in the water or has been pulled just under the surface and that's when Mr. Catfish is on the line.
That greedy _Ranatra_, who eats so much, and never looks a bit the more solid for his meals, crept up a reed and sunned his wings; the water-gnats skimmed and skated about, measuring the surface of the water with their long legs; the "boatmen" shot up and down till one was quite giddy, showing the white on their bodies, like swallows wheeling for their autumn-flight. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist. Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time
Few of us bounce up and down in glee at the prospect of paying taxes.
They were having a glorious time and their gay voices and gayer laughter echoed up and down the valley, dying away in elfin cadences among the trees. Rainbow Valley
He'd turn his head toward me, his chest still moving up and down quickly from the rapid, breathless exertion.
The second series marked the point where the quartet became superstars, with scenes from each episode being acted out in offices up and down Britain next morning.
He was jumping up and down with excitement.
And the safety standards for getting people up and down reliably are just unreachably high. Science
Larger broadaxes, often beveled on both sides, were used by the ‘tie hacks’, who would drop a tree with a felling axe, then walk up and down it, hewing as they went.
My interviewer couldn't see past the potential discomforts of walking up and down mountain slopes carrying a heavy pack containing all my camping gear.
Newspapers still asterisk a word that's common currency in newsrooms up and down the country, but in literature the Chatterley classes started taking it as read.
Automatic transmission shift up and down through the joint and withdrawing of the unite components, so the shift process is actually the process jointing and withdrawing of the unite components.
When waves cause the coil to move up and down relative to the fixed magnetic shaft, voltage is induced and electricity is generated.
When Owen closed his eyes, he could see them doing it, one blonde and the other red-headed, climbing up and down walls in faultless scalene triangles, counting every step. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
He didn't apologise and just grunted and looked me up and down. The Sun
They stood up, sang Twist and Shout, danced the twist, going up and down.
She bounced up and down in Allie's lap, keeping good time. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE AND MARGIE
The blowsy barmaid looked me up and down as she poured my drink. DEAD BEAT
All the kids started jumping up and down and cheering and waving.
This animal, if need be, will live on road-side croppings nearly as well as a mule, -- travel all day long on an easy "lope," never offering to stop till fatigue makes him fall, -- and, if you let him, will take you through _chaparrals_, and up and down precipices at whose bare suggestion an Eastern horse would break his legs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
Our car thuds over the worn grass and hills alongside the road, jerking us up and down.
A trio of girls in extremely tight shorts paraded up and down.
She paraded up and down in her new hat.
Rather than kick up and down, try to snap your feet down and inward.
Twenty British officers hunted up and down for the places supposed to have been reserved for them, and sweating servants hurried after them with arms full of heterogeneous baggage, swearing at the crowd that swore back ungrudgingly. In The Time Of Light
And while she rescued her drugged Eurydice, her laughter echoed up and down throughout the oubliettes, bouncing back under the high ceiling and between the narrow walls.
Grizzled veterans will squint into the sun, look you up and down, and warn that it is definitely not a race for snivellers.
Sir Arthur was perhaps one of the finest networkers of his time - developing links and relationships with mine and pit owners up and down the country to ensure that he got the best material, whenever or wherever it turned up.
I swear they enjoyed tormenting us kids, making us go up and down the staircases so often just to get to our next classes in about three minutes.
In school corridors and front rooms up and down the country tears of joy and despair were shed this morning.
They were roped together and a warder supervising them walked up and down with a rifle.
If you build your jig slightly larger than your posts it will slide up and down more easily.
To defend against the higher standard implied by the first … and while from an American neocon, this would be to defend the IDF from being judged by the same standard, but in other circles around the world it might be to defend Hamas from being held to the same standard demanded of the IDF … jump up and down and pretend that it should be understood as saying the second. beamish Says: Matthew Yglesias » Lacking in Prosal Clarity
Watching the display, Appelbaum sweeps the antenna slowly, left to right, up and down, dowsing for the source of the signal, which seems to be emanating from an upper floor of a hotel.
I'm also on the fourth floor of a walk-up, so racing up and down is not an option.
I do think if he would have jumped up and down and made a stink at the time and tried to stop it, he would have gotten as much traction as graham, which isn't much. Edwards In New NH, SC Ads: "I Was Born For" Fighting Big Corporations
African Americans were also at higher risk for transverse myelitis, an acute attack in which the spinal cord loses its ability to transmit nerve impulses up and down.
Lincoln tapped her feet and rubbed a handful of nibbled fingernails up and down her jacket as if fastening and unfastening a zip.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time, but as my legs get a bit dicky I am certainly not going to miss pounding up and down that High Street in all weathers!
I snuck off to freshen up and down a much needed espresso before getting glammed up in the tiny backstage room.
_Laufen_ in some parts of Germany is pronounced _lofen_, and we once heard a German student say to his friend, _Ich lauf'_ (lofe) _hier bis du wiederkehrst_: and he began accordingly to saunter up and down, -- in short, to _loaf_ about. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
As we jounced up and down the dirt roads of the town, he yelled greetings and encouragement out his window and everybody waved. Kook
The boats were cruising up and down the river, doing tours of the concrete walls that rise up from the surface of the water, reminding the passengers to duck as they motored beneath the low bridges.
And now that trillions are sloshing up and down K Street, the same muckraked fate looms for the Obama administration. Newsalert
She had tried running down several hallways, but running only made it worse by jouncing her bladder up and down.
It began hopping in my direction, both pairs of wings alternately moving up and down.
In a seamless division of labor, the mothers would traipse up and down the stairs and in and out of elevators with the children, while the dads would encamp in the living room sampling single-malt scotch. Suburban Tricks, Urban Treats
We yarned for a few minutes, during which time Mick's swingers were going up and down like yoyo's from line bites.
Betty, the editor's housemaid, has given warning, declaring that she cannot live with any gentleman who insists upon taking her in his arms, and tossing her up and down as if she was no more than a baby; at the same time making a chirruping noise with his mouth, and calling her "poppet" and "chickabiddy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841
I lay there with slight twinges of pain racing up and down my ribs, neck, face and realized that the house was completely silent.
At its most terrifying, his writing sends shivers up and down my spine.
The latest heavyweight report investigating pay inequalities between the genders landed last week, with a huge thwack, on news editors' desks up and down the country.
In Andrew's day they had drifted up and down the firth lifting nets dripping with moonlight and herring.
The upper sections of many of the rivers and streams in northern and western Hertfordshire operate as winterbournes, with the effective source of the river moving up and down the valley with the seasons.
He looked me slowly up and down as if I was some kind of blithering idiot.
She cocked her head to one side and jiggled the apple up and down a few times but I closed my eyes and tried to ignore her.
Raise and straighten your left leg, pointing the toes up and down.

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