Sentence examples for Swinging to and fro from inspiring English sources

Matt set himself up on a second trapeze, and began swinging to and fro, hanging by his knees, as Wood climbed the ladder.

L'Estrange rode his bicycle towards the centre, where, with the rope swinging to and fro, he stopped briefly to steady himself but instead, realising he was losing his balance, he was forced to leap from the rope and fell into the water below.

Take "Up to and Including Her Limits" (1973 to 1976), in which the artist used her naked body, suspended in a harness with crayon in hand or between toes, to doodle on giant paper sheets while swinging to and fro.

Behind it, Bojan could see the arm of the grandfather clock swinging to and fro, potted ferns sitting on a row of painted elephant stands, the varnished stairwell winding up into darkness.

Although the indices swung to and fro, the real action last week was in some of the higher profile names: Facebook traded from $95 down to $72, then back to $86. Netflix did the bungee jump from $125 to $85 then back to $110.

After the park opened its doors at noon yesterday, children screamed in terror inside the haunted house known as Dante's Inferno, while others hollered in delight aboard the Pirate Ship, which swung to and fro, higher each time, as if it were about to soar into the clouds.

Malibu Kathy is a tall, blond reporter whose ponytail swings to-and-fro as she races from brush-fire to mudslide.

On East 188th Street, children swing to and fro at the Ciccarone Playground, which had $2.7 million in renovations in 2007.

Circular depressions, thought to be made when an irregular iceberg touches bottom with a small "foot" and then swings to and fro in the current, have also been observed.

(A more telling detailing of how Arrington's favour swung to and fro over companies appears in one of the comments on Lyons's blogpost by "James Matts", who detailed the anti and pro coverage of Airbnb, a social rental company, before and after a TechCrunch-linked investment).

Opinion swung to and fro on today's guess-the-winner thread - and although Ladbroke's closed the book early on Tom McCarthy after a spate of dubious-looking bets, the field felt so wide open that no one really took that seriously as an indicator.