backwards and forwards
Example Sentences
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She hesitates for about 30 seconds, walking backwards and forwards.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
Court documents, while heavily redacted in places, show emails and letters were flying backwards and forwards between the Home Office, the Palace, Scotland Yard - and ultimately Prince Harry's team.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
I felt dragged backwards and forwards in time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
“This was heart wrenching, it was backwards and forwards and there were moments when I thought it was going in one direction and then in another,” Cauce says, on the video news conference.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
In the deep shade, at the farther end of the room, a figure ran backwards and forwards.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
