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
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 Thomas Carlyle
"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
