How to Use hither and yon in a Sentence

hither and yon

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• Throngs of guests and groupies would have pushed en masse toward the doors, the chroniclers of street style running hither and yon around them like a cloud of swarming gnats.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• Making these objects both large and small was not an activity conducive for a hobo riding the rails hither and yon with few possessions.
  — Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• Delays occur there as well, due to shortages of shipping containers — and of dockworkers to unload the cargo, and truck drivers to bring the books hither and yon.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2021
• On my 33rd birthday, friends from hither and yon e-mailed best wishes for my Jesus year, an allusion to Christ's earthly life span.
  — Hamilton Cain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• The mPOA tosses long nerve fibers, called axons, like lassos hither and yon to network with other important brain clumps.
  — Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• That enormous increase of money beginning to flow hither and yon, once started, will be unstoppable without drastic actions being taken.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• The bulk of the framework is focused on child care and climate provisions, with some funding sprinkled hither and yon for health care and other Democratic priorities.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
• According to oral tradition, the two systems incorporated a pre-1883 hodgepodge of pipes – some wooden, wells, and springs that ran in a crazy quilt hither and yon.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021
• In exhibition planning, original artworks sit safely in packing crates, or hang elsewhere, while models of them are moved hither and yon with relatively little care so curators and designers can determine their layout in a gallery.
  — Peter Libbey, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• If lobbying shops could be Marvel supervillains, the National Rifle Association would surely be right up there in the pantheon, harnessing some new source of infinite energy to wreak havoc hither and yon.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
• One of its members was convicted of ordering Levin’s murder, but thereafter Levin, or someone resembling him, was sighted hither and yon, on a Greek island, at a funeral [not his own], and behind the wheel of a brown Mercedes in LA.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026