Sentence examples for sailed back and forth from inspiring English sources

In addition to fulfilling basic needs, boats sailed back and forth ferrying seed and planting gear.

Perhaps we would have just contentedly sailed back and forth between Venice and Constantinople.

It was there that Mrs. Adelman saw that sticky keys were oiled, that carriages sailed back and forth, that clattering motors in electric machines were quieted.

Letters sailed back and forth between Williams and Brown's employer, Daniel C. Verplanck, until it was agreed that Brown would be permitted to buy his freedom with his wages, augmented by a loan from Verplanck.

As the day became night and the famous Hong Kong skyline illuminated, boats sailed back and forth across Victoria Harbour, the city went about its business, I didn't check my phone because the barrage of information I crave, the non-stop delivery of things to assault my senses was right in front of my eyes.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the animal arrived on the continent at least 3500 years ago as people sailed back and forth from Asia, where it first appeared, then continued to evolve in isolation until the arrival of Europeans and their dogs in the late 18th century.

All of that morning was spent sailing back and forth across the Mersey.

But this race, like most of the others so far, featured one boat, albeit an impressively majestic and fast one, sailing back and forth across the water.

The marine-oriented Norwegians ship their Linje Aquavit in oak casks, which they sail back and forth across the equator, the belief being that the transequatorial journey adds to the taste.

So begins this tale of sailing back and forth across the Pacific by Kevin Patterson, who at the age of 29 found himself loveless, directionless and as sour as Hamlet after three dreary years as a Canadian Army doctor posted to an artillery base in Manitoba.

Her office was now on Fifth Avenue, her home was in France, and she used the Atlantic Ocean as a corridor between, sailing back and forth to see the houses she was to do, and then working on their plans several thousand miles away.