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"looping back and forth" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use this phrase to describe a certain pattern that someone or something is moving in, such as when a bird circles an area repeatedly before eventually flying away. For example, "The hawk wheeled in the sky, looping back and forth as if searching for something."
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The non-linear narrative mirrors the movement of memory, looping back and forth through time, swerving over sore points and later returning to prod the painful moments.
Eventually the plot strands twist together and the movie goes completely berserk, looping back and forth through time and space in a flailing attempt at nonlinear poetic frisson.
Writing prose was usually a matter of looping back and forth between screen or paper and mind: writing something down, reading it over, thinking again, writing again.
We pedaled up one finger of the Taiya Inlet and down another, looping back and forth several times until we reached Dyea.
The whole is composed according to the Pulp Fiction principle of interlocking lives, all the while looping back and forth in time.
Benjy's hearing, smelling or seeing something in one setting sends him elsewhere, or looping back and forth between two times in the same place, a sensory-driven shuttling that occurs from paragraph to paragraph, sometimes even midsentence.
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Its most intriguing incarnation is the layered yuba pouch ($12), a ribbon looped back and forth, then compressed into a kind of mille-feuille.
In recounting these developments, Philip's narrative loops back and forth in time, back and forth between events recounted in A. N. Dyer's novels and their real-life antecedents.
The men's race layout, which differed most significantly from the women's in that it was over double its length, saw the riders make seven loops back-and-forth between the Badaling and Juyong Passes.
So she makes a loop, back and forth between 105th Street and 106th.
The entertainingly footnoted volume loops back and forth in time to chronicle the author's coming of age with becoming earnestness and humor and serves up some charmingly antic set pieces including what must surely stand as the darkest and funniest account of dental surgery ever written.
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