sidewards
Example Sentences
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Leaving the Spanish capital - even for a club as illustrious at Arsenal - would be viewed as, at best, a sidewards step.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
"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
She heard him give a little gasp, incredulous and vexed at once; his arms relaxed, the spell snapped, and twisting sidewards she slipped away out of his reach, breathless, triumphant.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine
"But Fionn cannot see us," Caevo'g objected, and her brow set downwards and her chin set upwards and her mouth squeezed sidewards, so that her face looked like a badly disappointed nut.
From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
