teeter-totter

Example Sentences

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A teeter-totter of freedom and dependence, junior year is a step into adulthood that somehow requires more parental focus than kindergarten.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023

Our motorboat broke down here, too, and so we waited two days for our own repairs, watching boys on the beach using a broken plank as a teeter-totter.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2022

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

For the earthquake two-parter in Season 2, the “9-1-1” team recreated a W Hotel suite on the studio lot, loaded it onto a giant teeter-totter and tilted it to a 30-degree angle.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

A few spring-mounted teeter-totter animals that resembled sun-faded dollar-store rip-offs of Disney characters sprouted up through the sand.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner