How to Use seesaw in a Sentence

seesaw

1 of 2 noun

• Their relationship was an emotional seesaw.
• The second half was a seesaw back and forth with the lead.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2019
• Toddlers and young kids used it to climb, lounge, seesaw, role-play and more.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
• Abloh placed a pair of white Nikes against a wall, a green beanbag on the ground, and a seesaw in the middle of it all.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2021
• But the other end of that seesaw is a channel that does way too many ads.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2021
• So Antonia sends me up and down the A-frame, through the tunnel, over the seesaw, and then through the tire to the finish line.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• The first few minutes of the game were a seesaw affair that saw both teams hit their first three shots.
  — Andrew Golden, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2021
• Over the last three years, the two countries have been a seesaw of production.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 17 May 2018
• The area, geared toward children 12 and younger, also has swings, a seesaw and a slide.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 11 June 2021
• That seesaw has signaled nothing short of a new era of late night.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Mar. 2017
• That seesaw has signaled nothing short of a new era of late night.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 9 Mar. 2017
• The recent drop marks the latest swing of this year's market seesaw.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2022
• Each of the three seesaws had a knot, handle bars and bicycle seats.
  — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
• This is the same basic idea behind the seesaw at the local playground.
  — Wired, 31 July 2022
• Then the Titans can try to end the seesaw this franchise has been stuck on in recent seasons.
  — Teresa M. Walker, The Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2019
• This looks like a classic spring seesaw kind of weekend.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2018
• Over the fall, Kyiv turned the tide in ground combat in the southeast, leading seesaw fighting to resume.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• Both boys seemed less propulsive, as if bouncing on a seesaw alone.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• The seesaw of savory and sweet makes sauces — and just about anything — irresistible.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2021
• As much as the final quarter was a seesaw affair, with two lead changes and two ties, the early part of the game was nearly a rout.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2017
• In one mural, two children use a metal tank trap as a seesaw.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• As if bouncing on a seesaw, Lisbey Elysé sat on the trunk of a coconut tree jutting out over the water.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• Friday, the hosts broke from a seesaw affair late in the third quarter by holding Brownsburg to just one point in the fourth quarter to claim the win.
  — Lewis Bagley, Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2018
• Erik Olson bounced his daughter on a seesaw at the Bethesda park, both of them wearing masks.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• The two states are on the opposite ends of the seesaw of national politics.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Out back, there’s a playground with a seesaw, swings and a trampoline, and a small water park complete with slides and a splash pad.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• For the second time on their road trip, the Giants rode the home run seesaw in the type of high-scoring affair that used to be exclusive to Coors Field.
  — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2019
• Last season, the seesaw group averaged 28.3 points, the league's third-worst scoring unit.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Behind each door is a buildable and poseable model, like the pieces to a pet playground, including a train, a seesaw, and a doghouse.
  — Mia Huelsbeck, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• But what can be said when California and our country seesaw between extreme drought and fires, while atmospheric rivers dump water all at once?
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023

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seesaw

2 of 2 verb

• The lead seesawed between the two runners right up to the finish line.
• The score seesawed, and the first half ended with the Raiders in the lead, 17–14.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• The game seesawed back and forth in the closing minutes.
  — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020
• You might be required to seesaw back and forth between the demands of the family and the needs of your job.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2021
• The state's fortunes from oil have seesawed for almost 70 years.
  — James MacPherson, Houston Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2020
• The Shanghai Composite jumped 4.1% on Monday and slid 2.3% on Tuesday, then seesawed through the rest of the week.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• As the vote counting seesawed Tuesday night, many Democrats were ready to claim a victory even if Lamb were to lose the race.
  — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• The value of the gift bags has seesawed over the years, a fact that Fary dismisses as irrelevant.
  — Isabel Lord, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Each team seesawed in different ways during the past 10 years.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2019
• The game continued to seesaw during the first five minutes of the final quarter.
  — oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021
• Markets in the region have seesawed because of unease about the state of trade relations.
  — Laura He, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
• The wholesale prices of diesel and gasoline have slipped and climbed, respectively, over the past three months, even while oil futures have seesawed.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• But the Giants seesawed back into the lead on Vogt's fifth-inning homer after Slater's infield hit.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
• Looking north under overcast skies in late August, the lake stretches all the way to the gray-blue horizon line, which appears to seesaw back and forth.
  — Peter Andrey Smith, STAT, 10 Sep. 2021
• The ocean seesaws between these states every two to seven years, though the past three years unusually saw three back-to-back La Niñas.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 21 June 2023
• That sets up a game of chicken that’s poised to play out while seesawing financial markets will be open for trading.
  — Anthony Halpin, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• The questions, for now, are how long that wait will be and whether Bitcoin’s seesawing value can stabilize.
  — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 26 Jan. 2018
• By the end of the month, the weather seesawed yet again with a cold front dropping 2.8 inches of snow on Jan. 25, just enough powder for Indy residents to bust out their shovels and sleds.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2023
• This seesawing may have tipped in favor of gamma in a study published July 18 in Neuron.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 18 July 2019
• The unveiling of The Nightingale, far from the horrors of the director’s modern genre classic, proved to be a seesawing affair.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 July 2019
• Even before Prigozhin’s mutiny, Russia’s seesawing fortunes in Ukraine had led to a growing mysticism among the army rank and file.
  — Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2023
• The committee’s name has seesawed along with control of Congress ever since.
  — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• Get on top of the pen good-oh, fill in here and there, scattergun semicolons, while my heart pushes hard in protest against the seesawing wagon of ribs that encloses it.
  — Claire-Louise Bennett, Harper's Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• The two teams seesawed, trading points up to 30-30 before Latin closed out the match-tying set on a Winchester hitting error and a Miroslaw Wierzbicki tip kill.
  — Brandon Chase, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
• Frontlines seesawed from block to block for more than two weeks as Russian forces attempted to break through toward the capital.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• The Bruins tend to seesaw between spectacular (win vs. Arizona on the road) and puzzling (a loss at Oregon State).
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2018
• Staff on base routinely flew smuggled alcohol onto the base in such high volumes that a plane once seesawed on the tarmac under the weight.
  — Desmond Butler and Lori Hinnant, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
• Stocks opened strong on Monday, and have seesawed since as investors search for direction as trade tensions overhang the market.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• The company’s stock also seesawed before ending up 3.4 percent at the close of trading.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• Tate and her dancers seesaw in pink two-pieces and sneakers, executing some pop-girl choreography befitting the bubblegum vocoder vocals and dance beat.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023

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