Sentence examples for glides back and forth from inspiring English sources

Well-turned out in flat cap and knickerbockers, he's dropped off at school by Christine before she takes the tram to work, where, efficiently, calmly and immaculately dressed, she glides back and forth on rollerskates behind the row of frantic telephonists.

In contrast, the gray morph crouches down and points the foremost two pairs of legs directly forward, crosses the tips of the legs creating a triangle-like configuration, holds his orange-colored palps beneath his forward eyes, and glides back and forth in stationary or receding semi-circles in front of the female, at 3 cm away.

Use your legs to push out so that carriage, or sliding bench, glides back and forth.

In a tea-colored pond, a pair of swans glided back and forth.

As the crane trolleys glided back and forth, and the ship, in its berth, was illuminated like a stage set by the wharf lights, Mr. Richardson became contemplative.

There, Indians rush to the lakeside to rent rowboats or pedalboats, and glide back and forth talking on their cellphones as the mountain mist drifts in.

Smoothly, gracefully, they glide back and forth over the hillside until it looks almost dull, this "boating around", as the initiated called it.

Today, you can stand on a roof in Tangier and watch as fast ferries loaded with tourists glide back and forth across the 14 miles that separate Tangier in Morocco from Tarifa in Spain.

He glided back and forth near the net, using his reach and his matchlessly quick and strong wrists to deflect point shots, often right in for a goal, or else seizing on a moment's opportunity to take two quick steps toward the goalie — his steps were other people's strides — and use a backhand shot that seemed less fired than eased.

When they want to remember the feel of ice they go to the shuffleboard courts, which are tended with all the care of a victory garden, and watch the shuffleboard disks glide back and forth over the waxed courts, as frictionless as time itself.

In principle, these batteries are simple: They consist of two electrodes divided by a membrane "separator" and a liquid electrolyte that allows ions to glide back and forth between the electrodes.