Sentence examples for swab back and forth from inspiring English sources
Each cleaning agent was applied to an approximately 1 cm2 square area of the paint film by dipping a pre-rolled cotton swab into the solution once, and then rolling the swab back and forth (1 roll) across the paint film 20 times without application of a subsequent clearance step (which would be standard conservation practice) and dried in ambient conditions.
One wipe consisted of moving a delipidized, acetone-soaked cotton swab four times back and forth over the skin surface.
The back-and-forth continues for weeks.
There is back-and-forth on this.
It's a back-and-forth conversation.
Twenty-three (10.1%) of the participants were unable to take correct swab samples as per the instruction manual (subjects directly wiping sampling swab on the teeth back and forth error recorded the highest frequency of 19).
Dip one end of a cotton swab into the alcohol and insert it back and forth into the stem to scrub away the oily residue.
Rub about 2 times back and forth, and switch to the other side of the swab.
They speculated back and forth.
