up-and-down

Example Sentences

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Damage to the cartilage in his knees was causing such severe pain that he could barely walk up and down stairs.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

"I'm pretty confidence we'll have the place jumping up and down," he said.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Women’s Open hitting fewer greens, yet she got up and down for par 24 times out of 30.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

“Even just tasks like going up and down the stairs are so much easier now,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

But as soon as he heard mention of an arctic hare, he rushed up and down all the burrow tunnels in search of Twitch, whom he of course could not find.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el