back and forth
Example Sentences
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After some back and forth, McElwee relented, letting Adrian try his slow zooms and dynamic shots.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
This describes a phenomenon where a star wobbles back and forth, indicating a massive companion object is orbiting.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He rode the bus for hours, back and forth in front of OpenAI looking at every face—but he couldn’t find Kirchner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Rather than trading lines back and forth, Lightbody and Minogue sing the entire song in unison.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The corpus is the switchboard for signals back and forth between the two halves.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
