sidewards

Example Sentences

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"This needs to be a very precise regulatory tool and not a sledgehammer, otherwise it might take football sidewards, or even backwards, rather than forwards."

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023

She swung sidewards, on one wing, and onlookers thought it was a bank; but suddenly there was a roar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still holding his face, she moved it sidewards, so that his eyes, knowing now what oflice was expected of them, followed the line of decorations about the room.

From At Fault by Chopin, Kate

But they must always endeavour—and here I differ from General von Schlichting—to range themselves forwards and sidewards of their own Army.

From Cavalry in Future Wars by Goldman, Charles Sydney

One day on walking out with her mother she was looking, child-wise, sidewards instead of in front, and nearly struck a lamp-post.

From Children's Ways by Sully, James