in and out
Example Sentences
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Perhaps this could all be done more quickly than securing the Strait of Hormuz or occupying Kharg, but it’s not an in-and-out operation like Venezuela.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
Page, nicknamed MVP, was a slight underdog heading into the bout at the Kaseya Centre, but Holland had few answers to his elusive footwork and slick in-and-out striking style.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2024
The two of us were practicing crossovers and in-and-out dribbles under the streetlight.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2023
And Russell, playing in his first home game in Los Angeles since April 9, 2017, probed in-and-out of the New Orleans defense, attacking in pick-and-roll and getting hot in the third.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023
Besides the happy, sad, and funny funerals, there were the super quick in-and-out funerals, or as Robbie Ray called them, drive-bys.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
