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Example sentences for "forwards"

Lexicographically close words:
forwardes; forwarding; forwardly; forwardness; forwardnesse; forwent; foryete; forz; forza; fossa
  1. My deaf friend, in boisterously good spirits, pointed backwards and forwards between the precious and the worthless objects on the two tables, as if he saw a prospect that delighted him.

  2. He shuffled the pack by pouring it backwards and forwards from one hand to the other, in a cascade of cards.

  3. Then rising, he leant forwards and gradually raised her dress in front.

  4. His sister now sought Mabel's cunt, and inserting a finger, commenced pushing it backwards and forwards as she embraced her lovely buttocks with her disengaged arm, burying her tongue within the rosy bottom-hole.

  5. We frequently saw the scarlet heads of the macaws peeping out of holes in the trees in which they make their nests; while flights of gaily-coloured parrots and green parrakeets were flying backwards and forwards across the river.

  6. But I think Celia and he always got on well together,' said Beatrice in an idly meditative tone, moving the edge of her fan backwards and forwards a few inches above her face.

  7. It was near enough to London to allow of his going backwards and forwards as often as might be necessary; his father's town house offered the means of change for Emily, and supplied him with a pied-a-terre in time of session.

  8. Backwards and forwards tore the sounds, rolling and reverberating from wall to wall with terrific crashes.

  9. We could see them clearly against the sky flourishing their spears, their chiefs riding backwards and forwards in front of their ranks, evidently encouraging them to come on and attack us.

  10. We lost no time in setting the traps under the water in the runs made by the beavers when passing backwards and forwards to the woods from whence they obtained the bark on which they fed.

  11. I immediately fell asleep, and when Mr Tidey roused Dan and me, the sun was already several degrees above the horizon.

  12. Still Dio entreated that even when he had recovered his strength he should not be sent away; but my father was firm in declining to make any promise both on his own account and for the sake of the black himself.

  13. We instinctively drew back, hoping that we had not been seen, but their voices reached our ears hailing us.

  14. The Dominie in the meantime had flayed the deer and spitted a couple of joints to roast, together with the remainder of the bird.

  15. As morning approached the sounds gradually ceased, and we had the satisfaction of believing that the wolves had retreated to the recesses of the forest.

  16. Now just sit down on the bank outside 'till the cap'n comes, or mount your horses and ride away about your business.

  17. They run downwards and forwards in the same direction as those of the wall.

  18. And of course we have only two directions, forwards and backwards.

  19. And I'm thrice damned if I'll go another yard towards that sterilized New Jerusalem, either forwards or backwards.

  20. The Queen's forwards did better this time.

  21. The latter was fighting desperately, but the forwards did not seem to be able to solve the play which was being sent at them, and the Queen's secondary defense had to take the punishment.

  22. I ran backwards and forwards about the plantation, not knowing where to look for you.

  23. Fidele running backwards and forwards in search of her, he heaved a deep sigh, and cried, 'Ah!

  24. During breakfast, Mr. Hamilton proposed that I should exchange my apartments in the bungalow for a similar one in his palace, because the going backwards and forwards at each meal time was very fatiguing.

  25. They threw their bodies from side to side in a most remarkably awkward fashion, but always moving the head forwards in a straight line.

  26. Shortly afterwards it sends forwards a smaller branch, which passes to the hyoid arch in front; so that the nerve forks over the hyobranchial cleft.

  27. They soon however grow forwards as two lateral ridges, attached to the hypoblast, one on each side of the medullary groove (fig.

  28. The two genital folds unite from behind forwards to form the scrotum.

  29. At the time when the cranial flexure appears, the body also develops a sharp flexure immediately behind the head, which is thus bent forwards upon the posterior straight part of the body (fig.

  30. At first there is no sharp boundary between the primitive fore-brain and its anterior prolongation, but there shortly appears a constriction which passes from above obliquely forwards and downwards.

  31. As this gradually assumes an oval form the posterior opacity becomes replaced by a very dark median streak, which extends forwards some distance from the posterior border of the area (fig.

  32. The vesicle at the termination of each peritoneal funnel sends a bud forwards towards the preceding tubulus, which joins the fourth section of it close to the opening into the Wolffian duct (fig.

  33. In the embryos of all the Craniata the heart is situated very far forwards in the region of the head.

  34. In front of the anterior attachment it is continued forwards for a short distance, and to the free end of this projecting part is articulated a small Meckelian cartilage directed upwards (mk).

  35. After tying Pete some paces in the rear, he came forwards to the verge of the valley and seated himself on a dry rock, where he could see some distance down the path under the tall sumach bushes.

  36. The next instant the dark, thundering mass passed over head, being nothing less than an immense herd of buffalo driven forwards by the flames!

  37. Joe made no answer, but continued to rock backwards and forwards most dolefully.

  38. Sneak, going forwards and kicking the object, which was truly nothing more than he took it to be.

  39. The object of the game is to strike a ball over a net and keep it in play backwards and forwards within certain limits.

  40. Scorned and hated, he drags after him over the stones the heavy chariot of a divided humanity, ever forwards and upwards.

  41. The whole triangle is moving slowly, almost invisibly forwards and upwards.

  42. The spiritual life, to which art belongs and of which she is one of the mightiest elements, is a complicated but definite and easily definable movement forwards and upwards.

  43. No, he still sails under his old captain in the same line, and voyages backwards and forwards between Melbourne and London with praiseworthy punctuality, in the new ship Captain Lennard commands in place of the old Greenock.

  44. Here the slopes work on a central pivot and move backwards and forwards to enable the top or bottom of the paper to be read with ease, and are so balanced that they fall easily and readily into their correct position when released.

  45. This kind of anchorage allows of a chair being moved backwards, forwards or sideways, and readers can get to and from their seats without trouble.

  46. At last one of the matches burned, and the fragrant cigar smoke, hovering uncertainly in flat, wide coils, stretched away forwards and upwards over a bush under the overhanging branches of a birch tree.

  47. Moments of doubt were continually coming upon her, when she was uncertain whether the train were going forwards or backwards, or were standing still altogether; whether it were Annushka at her side or a stranger.

  48. Millicent and Percival made a ball and then flung it backwards and forwards throughout the affair.

  49. But, as he paced, with frowning face, back and forwards across the room, there was something more puzzling still that had to be thought about.

  50. Then it resumed its trot in the direction of the pool; and the beaters, allowing it to gain a little way ahead, recommenced to drive it forwards by every means in their power.

  51. The boats were going backwards and forwards steadily and quickly, the boatmen working like madmen to save the mass of women and children.

  52. With that he swept the fire-character into the heap of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches: he shuffled the lot slowly backwards and forwards under his hands as a priest performs a rite.

  53. This cousin of the Sheikh is a great merchant, and comes backwards and forwards to Zinder from Kuka.

  54. Irregularities in the attracting forces which occasion precession also cause a slight oscillation backwards and forwards over the mean precessional path of the pole, the pole tracing a wavy line or nodding.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forwards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ahead; along; facing; forth; forward; onward