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

And so they went rapidly on, upwards and sidewards, in sunshine and rain.

From Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

All at once a man gave you his hand, and seemed meaning to conduct you upwards; but he led you sidewards, and appeared to draw you after him.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

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