Sentence examples for sweeping back and forth from inspiring English sources

While I was watching it, there were swifts sweeping back and forth high above the kestrel and then a heron took off and flew just below it.

It also included Nancy Graves, whose lifesize sculptures of camels might almost -- but not quite -- fit into a natural history museum diorama and whose films of flocks of birds sweeping back and forth against the sky have an accumulating power and monotony that relates to Mr. Baumgarten's film.

Miss Minter's idea of looking after children stops just short of any actual interaction with the creatures -- the only thing she could come up with was the supposed benefit of getting children out of doors" -- but she gets as far as giving Bobby a bath, only to see "a tear creep down his cheek... drop into the bath water and send a series of ripples sweeping back and forth across its surface".

Switch back and forth between blending the base color up with small, circular motions and blending the crease color down with sweeping back-and-forth motions until you can no longer see a stark distinction between the two colors.

Before long a bright yellow crop duster appeared over the rugged desert mountains and began sweeping low back and forth across the defined area, laying a white fog of malathion microdroplets over the fruit grove and surrounding countryside.

So very late in the game we came up with mounting it in the trunk and using the garage door motor as a way of sweeping it back and forth, and automating the process.

Then, with a clean rag, he would anoint the wood, sweeping his arm back and forth.

"If this tube was smaller, I could go deeper into the trachea," she said ruefully, as she easily held one of the featherweight newborns in her palm, sweeping the tube back and forth in the infant's mouth.

Sweeping their flashlights back and forth across the road, which had been closed for the night in deference to the amphibians, they each patrolled a 15-meter stretch bounded by squat orange cones and recorded on a clipboard what they saw.

Dry your brush on a clean towel or rag by sweeping it quickly back and forth across the fabric.

Instead of sweeping your eyeshadow back and forth across your eye in a fast motion, use short, slow brush strokes going in the same direction to blend colors.