sidewards

Example Sentences

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"This needs to be a very precise regulatory tool and not a sledgehammer, otherwise it might take football sidewards, or even backwards, rather than forwards."

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023

She swung sidewards, on one wing, and onlookers thought it was a bank; but suddenly there was a roar.

From Time Magazine Archive

I mean, for instance, your knights move sidewards or backwards, and we are often caught by it, because our knights move only forwards.'

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho

Then he perceived one of the arms, which, as the body dropped sidewards, had fallen right across his chest.

From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann

But they must always endeavour—and here I differ from General von Schlichting—to range themselves forwards and sidewards of their own Army.

From Cavalry in Future Wars by Goldman, Charles Sydney