backwards and forwards
Example Sentences
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Court documents, while heavily redacted in places, show emails and letters were flying backwards and forwards between the Home Office, the Palace, Scotland Yard - and ultimately Prince Harry's team.
From BBC • May 24, 2025
He then attempted to re-park and began moving the vehicle backwards and forwards several times.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 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
I could see the window in an angle of the passage, the curtain blowing softly, backwards and forwards.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
