Sentence examples for progress sideways from inspiring English sources
When the captain decided we could wait no longer, we sallied forth and were blown like a toy boat into the Bay of Biscay, making more progress sideways to the south than westerly toward Norfolk.
"Housing market conditions seemed to be improving only slowly," the central bank said, noting that new home sales were flat in September after moving up in August, and sales of existing single-family homes had not showed much progress and "moved essentially sideways" over the past several months.
As much as I like to think that I know how a work is progressing, pieces come in sideways.
If it means passing back or sideways, in order to progress, so be it.
The sidewinder does not progress forward when in motion but actually goes sideways.
Time is a theme in the film: although it progresses in a straightforward narrative, it also moves sideways into parallel and past time from Newton's point of view.
Instead of making progress, he said, the counts may be just "going sideways".
Steps taken appear to be forward, backward and sideways, but viewed at 10,000 feet they are always progressing the job seeker ahead, even if it is in a convoluted and unexpected route.
You would need to tap the screen 19 times, but even the slightest sideways swipe makes the app move to a different mode, losing your progress.
As the mining progresses, however, geological and equipment interactions creates variation in pressure across the longwall face, leading to incremental sideways slippage of the face equipment into the gate road, known as longwall creep (Fig. 2).
