“going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere”
“His rage was a saw, going back and forth, cutting through arteries, hers.”
“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”
“Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.”
“They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.”
“My poor clothes are going to wonder where they live. They have been transported back and forth to this place on numerous occasions.”