backwards and forwards

Example Sentences

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Maresca was regularly animated, shouting instructions towards his players and running backwards and forwards.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2025

Tides will now be lifting it up and down, and where it is touching the continental shelf, it will grind backwards and forwards, eroding the rock and ice.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

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 only difference was that his trapeze could only swing backwards and forwards.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl