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
But they must always endeavour—and here I differ from General von Schlichting—to range themselves forwards and sidewards of their own Army.
From Cavalry in Future Wars by Charles Sydney Goldman
One day on walking out with her mother she was looking, child-wise, sidewards instead of in front, and nearly struck a lamp-post.
From Children's Ways by James Sully
