Sentence examples for knife back and forth from inspiring English sources

He now did so by rocking the knife back and forth over the flattened clove.

Two men in windbreakers worked in silence yesterday, peeling worn T-shirts like layers of skin from the iron bars, passing a knife back and forth for the tough knots.

With your fingers pressing on the flat side of the knife, grind the herbs and spices by rocking the knife back and forth and pulling the mixture across the board holding the knife at a slight angle.

I looked at her strong, bone-filled hands as she dressed salads and pulled a bread knife back and forth, and for a while I enjoyed watching the strange coherence of a human body in motion.

The idea is that when you're chopping food you want to leave the tip of your knife in place, on the cutting board: you then end up rocking the knife back and forth, and the blade slides effortlessly, and with much more control, through whatever it is you're chopping.

Gently rock the knife back and forth over the ginger to mince it.

Everyone remembers the great Alfred Hitchcock shower scene in Psycho but it's doubtful that the knife flailing back and forth would have had such a great impact had we not spent time learning of the criminal ways of victim Marion Crane Janet Leighh).

Still, he didn't really try to drive the knife in and, consequently, no back-and-forth emerged.

A high school girl in knee socks crosses a hockey field, swinging the skirt of her school uniform "so that the rear knife pleats snapped back and forth like a school of fish when she walked".

So remove some of that water mechanically, by drawing a knife blade firmly back and forth over the fish, the way a wiper blade moves across a windshield.

The back-and-forth continues for weeks.