How to Use this way and that in a Sentence

this way and that

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• Moses looks this way and that way but sees no one who seems to care.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2023
• But that flock has been led this way and that by the pope’s mixed signals over the years.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
• The cymbals pop like fireworks; the groove bends, this way and that.
  — Raymond Cummings, SPIN, 28 May 2024
• Babies can grab onto it, twist it this way and that, and safely chew on it.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 11 July 2024
• His face is rugged, with a nose that moves this way and that, like a switchback trail, to suggest his past.
  — Steve Volk, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
• The unedited, muffled sound of wind filters through, and the breeze gently moves wisps of his hair this way and that.
  — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Comets, though, emit gas that can act like rocket motors, pushing the nucleus this way and that.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2010
• Each strap is two-pronged, like a tuning fork, so that the non-bra can be worn in at least twelve ways by twisting it this way and that.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020
• That male was maybe the first of its kind to turn its massive head this way and that, surveying the quiet valley.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2023
• Shorty would run crazily this way and that chasing that red beam, sometimes leaping straight up a wall trying to catch it.
  — cleveland, 3 June 2022
• The tops of the hedges are razor-sharp and curve this way and that, fitting into one another like a puzzle.
  — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Learning that dunker spot, learning how to pick-and-pop efficiently, learning how to guard this way and that way.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
• In conversation, Rohrer vibrates, long limbs jetting this way and that.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
• Clouds shifted this way and that for hours at various heights and levels, sometimes even permitting a glimpse of sun.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
• Just you, some soft black leather, a default computer voice, and—for now—a steering wheel, ghostly turning this way and that.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2024
• They’ve been washed this way and that like everyone else, and have survived by producing some talented surfers.
  — Matti Friedman, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
• Notes blown this way and that evoke a weathervane, a metaphor for the traveler’s turbulent emotions.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
• Tiny rooftop shapes going this way and that, indicating direction.
  — Ellise Pierce, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Know the difference between a helpful wind beneath your wings and a tornado of whims blowing you this way and that.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2024
• Bencic, who had been regaining the control that saw her joystick Gauff this way and that in the first set, couldn’t believe her luck.
  — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
• Life in the Big 12 is a walk on the tight rope, leaning this way and that, trying to maintain balance, one small step at a time.
  — Doug Haller, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
• Best of all, the divider gets turned this way and that to suit my moods, creating curves and semicircles against the backdrop of immovable straight walls.
  — Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2021
• The basket—originally used to transport goods downhill—swiveled this way and that, breath-catchingly close to the roadside ditch.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2021
• Many fingers have been pointed this way and that, including at Zimmerman, to account for this absurd outcome.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• Getting pushed around by a wave more powerful than himself, again and again, knocking him this way and that, almost teasing him before pulling him down forever.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
• However a jinking run from Sterling, twisting this way and that between the German defense, got the crowd back on its feet.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 29 June 2021
• The hydraulic steering is only faintly assisted, the wheel moving about in your hands as the wide tires are pulled this way and that by the undulating road surface below.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 3 July 2021
• Public health experts have referred to negotiating life during the pandemic as a dance — hastily moving this way and that as the virus dictates.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• Every line of poetry is turned this way and that to reveal its author’s exquisite sensitivity to folk and imperial languages alike.
  — The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
• Rather than tracing a clear arc, the story coalesces from scraps of routine — as David picks up and drops off the kids, or heads out in his truck to do an odd job — and is nudged this way and that by his wildly shifting moods.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021