Sentence examples for back and forth rather from inspiring English sources

Last week's Republican debate demonstrated that Social Security remains a political grenade to be lobbed back and forth rather than a subject of serious, constructive discussion.

Tynes, who was in the Walmart parking lot, said the struggle between Chapman and Rankin consisted of shoving back and forth rather than punches being thrown.

You interact with the content and the user gets to ask questions of the content - ultimately this is a back and forth rather than a one-way reading experience.

He recently applied the same strategy to testing a design meant to allow a steel building to rock back and forth rather than bend during a quake.

When two differently coloured spots were flashed on and off for 150 msec each – with a 50 msec gap – subjects reported not only seeing a single spot moving back and forth (rather than two distinct spots flashing on and off), they also saw the first spot suddenly changing in colour mid-way along its path.

Also, most TEDx events don't want you pacing back and forth; rather, they'll often have a red circular carpet on stage that you're supposed to stay on.

That seduction may seem to epitomize the "animal longing" that Aucoin speaks of — but the sex scene is hardly the climax of the opera: relatively brief, and with both singers fully clothed, it happens almost in passing, part of an ongoing back-and-forth, rather than the end point wrapping everything up.

The capybara's jaw hinge is not perpendicular and they thus chew food by grinding back-and-forth rather than side-to-side.

The internet, though, is a different KIND of medium — back-and-forth rather than broadcast — and the rise of such a participatory public space has completely changed the political media ecology, opening new niches to be exploited in turn by new kinds of organizing entities.

It is probably too much to hope the Pope engages with his Twitter follows in a proper back-and-forth conversation, rather than using the service as another pulpit to broadcast from.

And when you do stir, stir with a back-and-forth motion, rather than an up-and-down motion--this way you'll be less likely to crush the berries.