Sentence examples for being knocked back and forth from inspiring English sources

Second, we are now in Barack Obama's America, opening up a very different vista for gays and lesbians, in which the days of being knocked back and forth between evangelical Republicans and poll-sensitive Democrats seem, finally, to be numbered.

But on a big screen in front of them was projected a game of Pong – a very basic computer game, where a ball is knocked back and forth on a screen, like table tennis.

It isn't just the way the lines knock back and forth, with each competitor trying to read the other's spin, or even Jean's mastery of the demotic, with its patina of homely detail.

The novel includes a series of dazzling action sequences and hugely clever jokes; for instance, the sequence where Waterhouse and Alan Turing spend several pages knocking back and forth equations which are used to calculate the probability of the chain coming off Turing's bike.

It turns out that the whole of 2015 was the equivalent of that bit before the Wimbledon final when Andy Murray and whoever that other man was knocked balls back and forth across the net, before the umpire called time and the match actually started.

The border is being knocked down piece by piece — whether by journalists and soldiers crossing back and forth or shells falling on Turkish towns.

Mrs Wilson was separated from the Prime Minister as the crowd surged back and forth; children were knocked to the ground; and yet another egg was thrown at Mr Wilson - this time a boiled one.

There was a back-and-forth.

It's a back-and-forth conversation.

It's back-and-forth.

There is back-and-forth on this.