Examples of teeter-totter in a Sentence
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Torres, meanwhile, didn’t appear to worry about Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s impending arrival shortly after the teeter-totter affair.
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
However, as the nation’s politics polarized, California became one of those places that people on the other side of the political teeter-totter loved to hate.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
Downtown seems perched as if on a teeter-totter, between recovery and failure.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
This sequence lets all those organisms take center stage with their teeter-totter movements, bizarrely imbalanced gaits, and good intentions.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 May 2024
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.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Outside, the backyard was outfitted with a swing set, teeter-totter, and Tiger’s dog house.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 27 May 2023
If the unthinkable became a horrifying reality, if a life-and-death teeter-totter or crushing financial pressure pushed them to the brink, the teen would shoulder the weight of the world.
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
However, as the nation’s politics polarized, California became one of those places that people on the other side of the political teeter-totter loved to hate.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
Downtown seems perched as if on a teeter-totter, between recovery and failure.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
This sequence lets all those organisms take center stage with their teeter-totter movements, bizarrely imbalanced gaits, and good intentions.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 May 2024
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.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Outside, the backyard was outfitted with a swing set, teeter-totter, and Tiger’s dog house.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 27 May 2023
If the unthinkable became a horrifying reality, if a life-and-death teeter-totter or crushing financial pressure pushed them to the brink, the teen would shoulder the weight of the world.
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
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“Teeter-totter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teeter-totter. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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