teeter-totter

Example Sentences

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Growing up, my house backed up to a park with a teeter-totter, the kind that was little more than a steel pipe with two wooden boards as seats.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025

Are we positive there’s a dinosaur on the unseen end of that teeter-totter?

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

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