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Example sentences for "and fro"

  • No, ma'am; but they be gone to take the places of them who may, which is very close connected.

  • I say--I say again--that it doesn't become you to talk about him.

  • She said more distinctly, "Will you leave me alone now?

  • A figure apparently rose from the earth beside her.

  • All this bustle, and people passing to and fro, must have been most carefully rehearsed!

  • Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro.

  • Seraphina ran to and fro in the room; she wrung her hands and cried aloud; within she was all one uproar of terror, and conscious of no articulate wish but to awake.

  • The sun pursued his journey; the shadow flitted from her feet, shrank higher and higher, and was upon the point of leaving her altogether, when the rumble of a coach was signalled to and fro by the birds.

  • Up and down, and to and fro, ever mounting through the wooded foothills, the broad white high-road wound onward into Grunewald.

  • When the Queen of Sheba had read the contents of the letter, she again rent her garment, and sent word to her elders and her princes: "Know you not what Solomon has written to me?

  • Last of all, it turned the corner and moved into our field of vision: two file of men and a corporal with a lantern, which he swung to and fro, so as to cast its light in the recesses of the yards and sheds.

  • I walked to and fro in the apartment reflecting.

  • On the day of the robbery a well-dressed gentleman of polished manners, and with a well-to-do air, had been observed going to and fro in the paying room where the crime was committed.

  • Then they led him to a strange, dark place, lit up with torches; where troops of Spirits flew busily to and fro, among damp rocks, and through dark galleries that led far down into the earth.

  • In this fair plot dispacing to and fro.

  • The nest swayed to and fro, as they sat on the rim and cried.

  • But Darzee had built it out of reach of snakes, and it only swayed to and fro.

  • Baloo clasped his paws over his ears and rolled to and fro moaning.

  • Also, when your garments are white, then I am delighted in your ways; for then your goings to and fro will be like a flash of lightning, that those that are present must take notice of; also their eyes will be made to dazzle thereat.

  • Cabs and omnibuses hurried to and fro, and crowds passed, hastening in every direction, and the sun was shining.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "and fro" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    additional proof; and all; and blessed; and did; and for; and fro; and from; and his; and let; and set; and she; and take; and the; and was; and went; ecclesiastical discipline; fifteen millions; horse sense; just simply; know you; moving picture; peace with; scrofulous disease; such matters; work shall; young women