1 Draw the floss backwards and forwards between the teeth.

2 Kip stumbled backwards and forwards before falling down.

3 She was rocking backwards and forwards in her seat.

4 She rocked backwards and forwards on her chair.

5 The pendulum swung slowly backwards and forwards.

6 Paul paced anxiously backwards and forwards.

7 She practiced her part until she knew it backwards and forwards.

8 The movement of the ship caused the mast to sway from side to side/backwards and forwards.

9 He rocked the cradle with a gentle backwards and forwards motion.

10 He jerked his head backwards and forwards.

11 She gently rocked the baby backwards and forwards.

12 He started shaking it backwards and forwards.

13 She made them walk backwards and forwards,(www.Sentencedict.com) and then trot.

14 She jumped backwards and forwards in her narrative, creating considerable confusion in Dougal's mind.

15 Pike's head quite often pulses backwards and forwards like a mechanical toy.

16 Keith throws his right shoulder backwards and forwards, hoping the pads will somehow slide into place.

17 The irregular echo of footsteps passed backwards and forwards along the corridor outside.

18 More deflector panels sweep the beam backwards and forwards across the screen to trace out the picture lines.

19 Engage forward and reverse gears and shunt backwards and forwards, listening for unusual transmission noises.

20 Police helicopters buzzed backwards and forwards over the area all day.

21 Sir John fenced on, parrying sideways, backwards and forwards, playing with his opponents.

22 The more his head jolted backwards and forwards, the further down his scalp it crept.

23 He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.

24 It didn't exactly touch my hand, but sort of glided over it, wrinkling backwards and forwards.

25 They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner's surgery.

26 Then we noticed that the Pike head was sort of pulsing backwards and forwards like a mechanical toy.

27 The cross is meant to be imagined as oscillating backwards and forwards.

28 The horse dentist will smooth the sharpness away by using a metal rasp which is rubber backwards and forwards over the teeth.

29 So it was transparent, with these little black circles in it that seemed to jump backwards and forwards at you.

30 In one of those swings of mood she experienced, swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum, Blanche was frothy again.