hither and thither
idiom
old-fashioned + literary
: in various and usually random directions : here and there
traveling/wandering hither and thither
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Walter often spots her running hither and thither, seeming free in contrast with the increasingly preoccupied villagers for a harbinger of change has arrived in the form of the map-maker Quill (Arinzé Kene).
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Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024
Momoa seems to sense that the story is wandering dazedly hither and thither, none too fast, and needs punching awake.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
All the elements to the left of plutonium in the periodic table are quite willing to share electrons with each other, gaily forming compounds hither and thither; the elements to the right, far less so.
—Valerie Brown, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018
Conjunctivitis is spread through particularly artful and gross means - the contamination of objects with eye gunk, smeared inadvertently hither and thither as a person wrestles with the itchy, gritty misery that defines what is commonly known as pinkeye.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2013
For whatever reason, this new one is attracted to the scrubby valley where O.J. and Emerald dwell, concealing itself inside a motionless cloud or, for its next trick, scooting hither and thither through the sky.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
Audience avatars would regularly crash the runway, flying hither and thither, but there was no security.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
But as director Christopher Ashley sends the columns gliding hither and thither to create various interiors and exteriors, the structures often … wobble.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
Same with Sitake, a man seemingly mystified, searching high and low, wide and far, hither and thither, hunting, scratching, grasping for the right conclusion.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
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Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024
Momoa seems to sense that the story is wandering dazedly hither and thither, none too fast, and needs punching awake.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
All the elements to the left of plutonium in the periodic table are quite willing to share electrons with each other, gaily forming compounds hither and thither; the elements to the right, far less so.
—Valerie Brown, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018
Conjunctivitis is spread through particularly artful and gross means - the contamination of objects with eye gunk, smeared inadvertently hither and thither as a person wrestles with the itchy, gritty misery that defines what is commonly known as pinkeye.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2013
For whatever reason, this new one is attracted to the scrubby valley where O.J. and Emerald dwell, concealing itself inside a motionless cloud or, for its next trick, scooting hither and thither through the sky.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
Audience avatars would regularly crash the runway, flying hither and thither, but there was no security.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
But as director Christopher Ashley sends the columns gliding hither and thither to create various interiors and exteriors, the structures often … wobble.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
Same with Sitake, a man seemingly mystified, searching high and low, wide and far, hither and thither, hunting, scratching, grasping for the right conclusion.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
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“Hither and thither.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hither%20and%20thither. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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