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from side to side

Meaning

from side to side

Moving or turning back and forth.

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So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain. Isaac Watts

I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game. Bobby Hull

The mirror cracked from side to side 'The curse is come upon me', cried The Lady of Shalott. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge. Ambrose Bierce

His opinions are like water in the bottom of a canoe, going from side to side. Efik Proverb

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