teeter-totter
Example Sentences
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It was never magic that kept the teeter-totter of my youth dangling in midair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
“It’s the most I’ve ever been able to teeter-totter between being a human onstage and being a dancer onstage,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Now, as we teeter-totter between cool mornings and warm afternoons, it's time to revitalize our kitchen pantries with an assemblage of earthy and spicy aromas.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2021
Kathleen Gerson, a sociology professor at New York University who began researching work-life integration around the same time as Friedman, agrees that a work-life convergence is healthier than trying to stabilize a precarious teeter-totter.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
He collapsed as hard as if Claudia had suddenly jumped off the down end of a teeter-totter while he was still sitting on the up end.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
