hither and thither in English

adverb
1
in various directions, especially in a disorganized way.
the entire household ran hither and thither

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1. Butterflies flit hither and thither.

2. He tramped hither and thither.

3. People began rushing hither and thither.

4. Coloured fish darted hither and thither .

5. He rove hither and thither that night.

6. She ran hither and thither in the orchard.

7. Refugees run hither and thither in search of safety.

8. I saw Mary fetching about hither and thither.

9. They searched for the missing child hither and thither.

10. A school of tiny, glittering fish flicked hither and thither.

11. He wandered hither and thither about the king's lonely palace.

12. Autumn is blown hither and thither by an ever-changing tempestuous wind.

13. He saw the men's eyes turning hither and thither in quest of him.

14. Ideology pulling hither and thither - sometimes resulting in apparent loss of direction - has not helped.

15. The vessels were tossed hither and thither at the mercy of the winds and waves.

16. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course.

17. The water was clear to the bottom. A school of tiny fish flicked hither and thither.

18. He carried an ancient Greece heptachord hither and thither,[Sentencedict.com] chanting his poems to people he met.

19. True, it would suit her very well just now to be darting hither and thither between Hertford and York.

20. The Beldam hurried hither and thither, and with the help of the guinea pigs and squirrels quickly made the soup

21. If you are no longer “tossed about as by waves and carried hither and thither by every wind of teaching,” this too is evidence of advancement.

22. Knowing and applying the truth protects us from being “tossed about as by waves and carried hither and thither by every wind of teaching.” —Ephesians 4:14.

23. A spiritual babe is easily “tossed about as by waves and carried hither and thither by every wind of teaching by means of the trickery of men, by means of cunning in contriving error.”

24. Troops of horse, splendidly Accoutred --officers mounted upon noble hunters--clattered hither and thither, crushing country folk against mire-stained walls and tattered booths, where victuals were dispensed, without so much as a 'By your leave.'

25. To the Christians in Ephesus, the apostle Paul wrote: “He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelizers, some as shepherds and teachers, with a view to the readjustment of the holy ones, for ministerial work, for the building up of the body of the Christ, until we all attain to the oneness in the faith and in the accurate knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of stature that belongs to the fullness of the Christ; in order that we should no longer be babes, tossed about as by waves and carried hither and thither by every wind of teaching by means of the trickery of men, by means of cunning in contriving error.” —Ephesians 4:11-14.