ups and downs
Example Sentences
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Not surprisingly, there have been plenty of ups and downs over the years for Pool Corp, the world’s largest distributor of swimming-pool supplies.
Race Across the World: The Detour will chart the ups and downs of the series with the help of a different guest each week, including comedians and celebrity fans of the show.
From BBC
“We had a rum sort of courtship, all ups and downs,” Wilson writes, “but the ups were oh so terribly sweet. I always told you that you kissed better when you had tears in your eyes. . . . Anyway darling, perhaps it’s better to say that I’m writing this just in case anything did happen to me, I don’t think it will but one can never tell these days.”
After a year of ups and downs, it looks like one of the two licensed pairs of beavers set free has finally settled.
From BBC
They laughed at the ups and downs of American campus life.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
