Workers hurried back and forth.

Meaning: This sentence is describing ants moving quickly back and forth.

Choice of Words: Workers are people or animals that do a job. Hurried means to move quickly. Back and forth means moving in one direction and then the opposite direction. So, this sentence describes ants moving quickly from one place to another and then back again.

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