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

Meanwhile, back in Boston, some acrobatic fans had climbed into trees, and the television cameras showed them being whipped back and forth by crowds -- of English majors, presumably -- pushing and pulling on the trunks as if in some mass re-enactment of the Robert Frost poem "Birches".

Without the necessary votes to repeal it or energize it, it will continue to be whipped back and forth like a pea in some cosmic shell game.

On Monday, trees were whipping back and forth, one could hear the intermittent crackling of branches snapping off, and it was raining very hard.

The hardest part of casting for me is getting the timing of the arm movement right so that the fishing line does not tangle, and as my classmates and I lift our rods backward, the air is suddenly filled with the sharp swishing noises of pliable graphite sticks being vigorously whipped back and forth.

The speedometer needle whipped back and forth from 60 to 130 m.p.h. and back to 80.

"Let's get back in the truck," he said cheerfully, as tree limbs whipped back and forth.

They are constantly whipping back and forth trying to live another day.

"At times it looks like there's fire in the sky with the wind whipping back and forth," one witness, Ryan Marble, told the Los Angeles Times.

Apart from Ms. Mozgawa's arms, there wasn't much movement onstage, save for Ms. Lindberg's hair, which was cut extra long in the front, making it easy to whip back and forth.

If you see your cat's tail whipping back and forth or thumping the floor, it's a sure sign of irritation.

The branches thrashed violently — whipping back and forth, slamming against the windows with a thud, then sliding down slowly before being lifted aloft again.