Illustration: In a Japanese apartment on laundry day, a parent holds a nearly empty laundry basket while discovering socks scattered around the living room. One hangs from the television stand, another peeks from beneath a floor cushion, and a third rests on the windowsill beside a houseplant.

あちらこちら

achirakochira

here and there

Example sentences

我々われわれはあちらこちらに走はしり回まわった。
We were running to and fro.
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子供こどもたちが公園こうえんの中なかをあちらこちら走はしりまわっていた。
Children were running to and fro in the park.
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庭にわのあちらこちらにきれいな花はなが咲さいている。
There are beautiful flowers here and there in the garden.
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