(from) side to side

idiom

: moving to the left and then to the right

She shook her head from side to side in disagreement.

waving the flags from side to side

He moved side to side on the tennis court.

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Finn and Sarroff stage several sequences in long takes, the camera swinging back and forth, side to side to capture cause and effect, terror and reaction. —

Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2024 As the sun drops into the sea and the catamaran sways from side to side, the thumping of the drums rings out across the water. —

Seth Berry, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024 As Hedwig puts it on and turns side to side, gazing at her own reflection in a mirror, our thoughts inevitably turn to the coat’s prior owner, a woman never mentioned in the film, but almost certainly Jewish and murdered in the camp’s gas chambers on arrival. —

Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 Vacuum in two directions, up and down and from side to side, and go slowly. —

Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for (from) side to side

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