Sentence examples for tilting back and forth from inspiring English sources

Firefighters and the police cordoned off an area around the 272-foot tower just before 5 p.m. after reports that it had been tilting back and forth in the wind.

In "Page Turner," Petra van Noort sat on the side of the piano, tilting back and forth like a human metronome, while Rovang played; gradually, she changed her position so that her legs were splayed to either side of the keyboard, the sheet music propped against her backside.

In the step test of tilting back and forth, it is found that the absolute measurement error is less than 0.004° for the step change of 0.05°.

Over the years, the balance of power at Goldman has tilted back and forth between traders and bankers, mostly depending on which business was ascendant.

The pale moonlit sky, seen through the branches of the rosewood tree, tilted back and forth like a bowl of swaying water.

It took until the 77th minute for the breakthrough and the sensation was rather of a contest that tilted back and forth at speed, tactics shifting, moments too.

Made of aluminum, the Mogul holds your iPad in either portrait or landscape and easily tilts back and forth to face either the cashier or the customer.

With Crossfader, you just swipe between songs, pick two you like, and tilt back and forth to mix them into a mashup.

As Earth rotates, it tilts back and forth along its polar axis like a spinning top that has been nudged slightly.

Any 7-year-old can fool her younger brother by holding the neck of a spoon and rapidly tilting it back and forth, like a mini teeter-totter gone haywire.

Cheapies tend to let you tilt them back and forth only a few degrees, and they also tend to sit lower than is ergonomically optimal; a separate stand or a big book can fix that.