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teeter-totter
verb as in oscillate
Example Sentences
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.
Watching their sons play against one another in the NFL can be an ‘emotional teeter-totter’ for parents who want their children to win.
A teeter-totter of freedom and dependence, junior year is a step into adulthood that somehow requires more parental focus than kindergarten.
“It’s the most I’ve ever been able to teeter-totter between being a human onstage and being a dancer onstage,” she said.
“With every piece of litigation, with every new constitutional amendment, with every new abortion restriction in a state that has some access, we are on this teeter-totter of what can we do here to make more space for the people who are going to be fleeing their home state?”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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