sidewards

Example Sentences

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"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 the others, intently watching though they were, could not see how a door opened—whether it drew back inwards or rolled in sidewards.

From Christmas Tree Land by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)

Next day he arrives, not at Breslau as some had expected, but at Schweidnitz sidewards; a strong little Town, at least an elaborately fortified, of which we shall hear much in time coming.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas

He was not looking at her but far away sidewards across the spreading hill.

From The Crock of Gold by Stephens, James