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
Still holding his face, she moved it sidewards, so that his eyes, knowing now what oflice was expected of them, followed the line of decorations about the room.
From At Fault by Kate Chopin
I mean, for instance, your knights move sidewards or backwards, and we are often caught by it, because our knights move only forwards.'
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
