seesaw

Example Sentences

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All this during a rather seesaw start of the year for Netflix investors.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Goals from Faisal Bangal, Geny Catamo and Diogo Calila won a seesaw struggle for the Mozambicans, who led 2-1 at half-time.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

They are integral parts of a dynamic structural system—their weight of stone pushing the walls outward while the flying buttresses outside push them inward—the two forces exactly matching, like a perfectly balanced seesaw.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

On the other side of that seesaw expectantly sits his daughter’s faith in him.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

There was no swing, no seesaw, no sand pit, and no other children were ever invited to come up the hill to play with poor James.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl