teeter-totter
Example Sentences
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India does both: Her haphazard approach to birth control never dims her determination to work as an actor, and her observations teeter-totter between insouciance and profundity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
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
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
I tap one end of the candy bar, making it teeter-totter on my knee.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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