Sentence examples similar to reciprocate back and forth from inspiring English sources
The positive-displacement type may be subdivided into reciprocating (back-and-forth straight-line motion) and rotary (motion in a circular path) compressors.
In the 1830s Jeremiah Bailey of the United States patented a mower-reaper, and Obed Hussey and Cyrus McCormick developed reapers with guards and reciprocating (back-and-forth-moving) cutting blades.
In a piston-and-cylinder engine the pressure produced by combustion of gasoline creates a force on the head of a piston that moves the length of the cylinder in a reciprocating, or back-and-forth, motion.
The back-and-forth continues for weeks.
There is back-and-forth on this.
It's a back-and-forth conversation.
Cam, machine component that either rotates or moves back and forth (reciprocates) to create a prescribed motion in a contacting element known as a follower.
One shuttle in the system acts as loading structure and the other one moves back and forth to force the friction pair to reciprocate.
Undaunted, the second reciprocates, and the pair flutter for several seconds, before reverting to the back and forth bobbing of heads which seems to serve as a breather.
They speculated back and forth.
