How to Use front to back in a Sentence

front to back

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  • Its roof slopes down quite steeply from front to back; its front wall also slopes.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • When done, pull it off, front to back, and your hair will still be perfect.
    — Sacramento Bee, 9 Nov. 2013
  • At each show the bands will perform both albums front to back.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • So, the defense — from front to back — hasn’t been nearly good enough.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • En route from front to back, diners pass a semi-open kitchen and a whirl of cooks.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The flume tank had two nozzles that each pushed a mild plume of water from front to back.
    — Danielle L. Dixson, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • But there’s not enough room front to back, so many of the chairs are right up against the next desk behind.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Shift the pans from top to bottom and front to back halfway through baking.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Young girls should be taught to wipe front to back during potty training.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Only in this case, the reduction is front to back rather than side to side.
    — James Shreeve, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Some shake in different patterns—side to side, front to back, or up and down.
    — Ciara Lucas, SELF, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Wipe gently from front to back after pooping.
    — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The full-size board slopes slightly from front to back, giving the keyboard a slight lift.
    — PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The flow of air in a plane cabin goes from top to bottom, not from front to back or vice versa.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Myopic eyes are usually longer than normal from front to back.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Goth paired the sandals with a custom Dior dress that shifted hard from front to back.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Drinkware should be placed along the sides, from front to back, of the top rack, according to Whirlpool.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • The design is a white shell with the school's mascot on either side and a red stripe running from front to back.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The system works by sending fluid from front to back or from side to side, in a fraction of a second.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
  • This bicorne had traditionally been worn with the wings front to back.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2023
  • That means that starting from front to back, all aisle seats exit first, then all middle seats and then all window seats.
    — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • Working the stage from front to back, left to right, Beckley provokes the crowd to near madness.
    — Joe Sills, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Over large swells in the road, the Spectre can be slightly too floaty front to back, but body roll is well controlled.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 3 July 2023
  • Two burner tubes run front to back, and a third connects them to keep heat rising toward the warming rack at the rear.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
  • This is because the air in a plane’s cabin primarily flows from ceiling to floor, not front to back.
    — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The glasses weigh 100 grams and their weight felt evenly distributed from front to back.
    — Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Redan greens are typically narrow and angled away from the tee, with the putting surface sloped from front to back.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • After playing the album from front to back, the band took audience requests.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Bake for 30 minutes, reversing the sheets front to back and top to bottom at the halfway point.
    — Jacalyn Carfagno, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Bake, one sheet at a time, for 9 to 11 minutes, rotating from front to back halfway through.
    — Nasim Lahbichi, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022

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