backwards and forwards
Example Sentences
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The car was driven backwards and forwards in an apparent attempt to escape.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2024
I felt dragged backwards and forwards in time.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2024
“This was heart wrenching, it was backwards and forwards and there were moments when I thought it was going in one direction and then in another,” Cauce says, on the video news conference.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2023
"The lads are rocking backwards and forwards with guitars, mouths to the microphones, singing," Roag said.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
I led my dogs to it Holding onto their collars with one hand, I worked a rusty barbed wire backwards and forwards against a staple until it broke.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
