How to Use to and fro in a Sentence

to and fro

adverb

• On the broad path to the port the visitors milled to and fro.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• But even that’s not enough to overcome the trek to and fro.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Parents spend a lot of time in the car, schlepping kids to and fro.
  — Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
• Strangest of all are the rigs carrying new cars to and fro.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Staffers in crisp white uniforms and white pointed chef’s caps dart to and fro.
  — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit, 20 June 2018
• The broad treads hugged the sand, pivoting the robot to and fro at Hyneman’s whim.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
• No need to pack up the car or transport soggy sleepyheads to and fro.
  — Naveen Kumar, CNN Underscored, 29 June 2020
• The three swung to and fro, depending on the energy of those around them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
• 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
• The four different guys who have already traveled the Triple-A to and fro.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Mail carriers in fuzzy hats and crisp polyester shorts scurried to and fro.
  — Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Perhaps 50 boats drifted to and fro in the choppy water for around an hour.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2020
• Attention is very much being paid on the daily trips to and fro.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Shortly thereafter, the global movie star was seen toting the satchel to and fro, and the rest was history.
  — Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• The endless slew of press stories to and fro makes little difference to this.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2010
• Special low-loading trailers carry the parts to and fro across the channel.
  — J. A. Maxtone Graham, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020
• 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
• But transporting the kilogram to and fro risked wear and tear that could compromise its mass.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Watch as Tory Burch’s tennis dress comes to life, swishing its pleated skirt to and fro.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So that’s probably going to be a bottleneck on your trip to and fro.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024