go back and forth
Example Sentences
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The two did a nice job portraying teenagers who go back and forth from sincere to ridiculously immature, but the best part was their horror when Jost fired back.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
Filing confidentially allows a company and the SEC to go back and forth on the listing without disclosing sensitive information until later in the process, when the listing is eventually made public.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
"We can sit down, have a nibble, and then just go back and forth and graze," said the 30-year-old.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
It’s the kind of archivism that will make you go back and forth between the alternates and the album track, comparing and contrasting minute differences in vocal inflection.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2025
Streams we could have forded easily enough—Marlene seemed quite happy to go back and forth carrying two of us at a time.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
