teeter-totter
Example Sentences
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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
That was always this teeter-totter between family and the priorities of family and being a productive member of society through work, through both pursuit of social justice and education priorities.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2019
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
