back and forth
Example Sentences
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Homemaker and mother Mutia Mulansari, 30, said she had heard people say the women were "just riding motorbikes back and forth, back and forth... we’re just playing around".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The U.S. ambassador to Greece—Donald Trump Jr.’s former fiancée—was shuttling back and forth to Bulgaria’s capital on a mission this spring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The pair - now 80 and 81 - began writing to each other and soon built up a rapport, with regular letters going back and forth between Scotland and the United States.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
During our interview, Roebuck went back and forth between his feelings about Walters’ sentence.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The corpus is the switchboard for signals back and forth between the two halves.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
