forth
Example Sentences
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Our homes are 20 miles apart, and he still drives back and forth almost daily.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
“The only ‘interference’ is the normal back and forth between editor and correspondent that happens in every newsroom.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
His involvement led to hundreds of Cornishmen going back and forth between Cornwall and Hidalgo in the coming decades.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Many regulations are essential guardrails of safety: minimizing the risk of financial crises, ensuring that our food isn’t harmful, protecting us from airplanes that malfunction, and so forth.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
A chest of drawers “played back and forth with inconceivable rapidity.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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