How to Use to and fro in a Sentence
to and fro
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On the broad path to the port the visitors milled to and fro.
—New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
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But even that’s not enough to overcome the trek to and fro.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2022
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The tour sites are close enough to each other to walk or bike to and fro.
—Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2018
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Parents spend a lot of time in the car, schlepping kids to and fro.
—Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
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Strangest of all are the rigs carrying new cars to and fro.
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
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Staffers in crisp white uniforms and white pointed chef’s caps dart to and fro.
—Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit, 20 June 2018
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The broad treads hugged the sand, pivoting the robot to and fro at Hyneman’s whim.
—Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
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No need to pack up the car or transport soggy sleepyheads to and fro.
—Naveen Kumar, CNN Underscored, 29 June 2020
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The three swung to and fro, depending on the energy of those around them.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
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Waddling to and fro is tough enough; these folks have to be able to swim through white water in them.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
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The four different guys who have already traveled the Triple-A to and fro.
—Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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While bouncing to and fro, one competitor would throw the ball through the hole and the other would have to stop it to save a point.
—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2020
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Mail carriers in fuzzy hats and crisp polyester shorts scurried to and fro.
—Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2022
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Plunk the tree outside in any region with a breeze and harvest the energy as the fake leaves sway to and fro.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2017
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Perhaps 50 boats drifted to and fro in the choppy water for around an hour.
—John Pana, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2020
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Attention is very much being paid on the daily trips to and fro.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
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The never-ending war on birds takes place far from the terminals, in the swaths of grass that lie beyond the zones where jets taxi to and fro.
—Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
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The beasts are the muscle machines, the workaday haulers chuffing to and fro with the takings of forests and mines, fields and factories.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
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Shortly thereafter, the global movie star was seen toting the satchel to and fro, and the rest was history.
—Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
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The endless slew of press stories to and fro makes little difference to this.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2010
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Special low-loading trailers carry the parts to and fro across the channel.
—J. A. Maxtone Graham, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020
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As the team charged down the field, a strange roar was building in the stands — the chorus of hundreds of cowbells swinging to and fro on the homecoming mums.
—Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
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But transporting the kilogram to and fro risked wear and tear that could compromise its mass.
—Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
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The far more powerful Chi Chi quake simulation shakes the building from side to side and to and fro.
—Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
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Watch as Tory Burch’s tennis dress comes to life, swishing its pleated skirt to and fro.
—Rachel Besser, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
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The largest sack is perfect for hauling laundry to and fro; the smaller sizes can hold a lunchtime picnic or a change of clothes for a dip in a hot spring.
—Megan Barber, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2018
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The two then kneel head-to-head, throwing each other’s arms and torsos to and fro in a sort of tragic and forbidden love.
—Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2017
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Watching the guys dodge and dive to and fro while being bossed around by these hardcore kids was everything.
—Becca Kufrin, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2018
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So that’s probably going to be a bottleneck on your trip to and fro.
—Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
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Progressed from loafing here and there with scant dollars in my pocket, to swaggering to and fro with a bankroll swelling my sock.
—Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
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