How to Use seesaw in a Sentence

seesaw

1 of 2 noun
  • Their relationship was an emotional seesaw.
  • That’s like leaving your anvil on a seesaw.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Priya, who lived down the block, and our endless turns on the seesaw.
    — Literary Hub, 21 June 2016
  • Toddlers and young kids used it to climb, lounge, seesaw, role-play and more.
    — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
  • That seesaw has signaled nothing short of a new era of late night.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Mar. 2017
  • But the other end of that seesaw is a channel that does way too many ads.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Both boys seemed less propulsive, as if bouncing on a seesaw alone.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • In one mural, two children use a metal tank trap as a seesaw.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Each of the three seesaws had a knot, handle bars and bicycle seats.
    — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • Over the last three years, the two countries have been a seesaw of production.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • The recent drop marks the latest swing of this year's market seesaw.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • This is the same basic idea behind the seesaw at the local playground.
    — Wired, 31 July 2022
  • But experts say the seesaw may be hampering efforts to reach a deal.
    — Jackie Northam, NPR, 12 May 2026
  • Each step jerks like a menacing seesaw, nudging you toward the void.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Cortisol and melatonin work like a seesaw — when one spikes, the other drops.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Moreover, the seesaw motion ensures that salt does not clog the system.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Usually, these act like a seesaw, one rising while the other falls.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That's why, with parent and child at either end, the seesaw tips in the direction of the adult.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The seesaw of savory and sweet makes sauces — and just about anything — irresistible.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2021
  • The area, geared toward children 12 and younger, also has swings, a seesaw and a slide.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 11 June 2021
  • The seesaw battle continued in the fourth.
    — Oc Register, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Cortisol and melatonin work like a seesaw.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But every year that goes by of the barrel aging, the seesaw comes into balance.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • 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 for some, the last year has rebalanced the power seesaw between worker and boss.
    — New York Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Imagine a parent and child sitting on opposite ends of a long seesaw.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • If attached, the two of you often are on a seesaw about situations.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Will a specific game (or games) be a seesaw shootout or a defensive struggle?
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025

seesaw

2 of 2 verb
  • The lead seesawed between the two runners right up to the finish line.
  • The back-and-forth sent oil prices and stock markets seesawing.
    — Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But the policy soon seesawed again.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The state's fortunes from oil have seesawed for almost 70 years.
    — James MacPherson, Houston Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Each team seesawed in different ways during the past 10 years.
    — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2019
  • 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 score seesawed, and the first half ended with the Raiders in the lead, 17–14.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Trades The Club executed six trades this week as stocks seesawed.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Markets in the region have seesawed because of unease about the state of trade relations.
    — Laura He, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The game continued to seesaw during the first five minutes of the final quarter.
    — oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The committee’s name has seesawed along with control of Congress ever since.
    — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
  • The value of the gift bags has seesawed over the years, a fact that Fary dismisses as irrelevant.
    — Isabel Lord, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Gas prices have seesawed in recent days, following news of a fragile ceasefire on April 8.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hoosiers watched as temperatures seesawed for three months, changing rapidly in a matter of days, hours and sometimes minutes.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Although Continental outgrew Enid more than a decade ago, pumpjacks pulling up oil still seesaw up and down near town.
    — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, oil prices seesawed during the early part of Monday's trading session.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The attorney general's power has seesawed in recent years.
    — Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There are memories of the light, memories of the games, the sandbox scooping, the handball, the finding someone to seesaw with.
    — Literary Hub, 21 June 2016
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Stocks seesawed after the Fed’s announcement and closed lower Wednesday.
    — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
  • This seesawing may have tipped in favor of gamma in a study published July 18 in Neuron.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 18 July 2019
  • Stocks opened strong on Monday, then spent the rest of the week seesawing as investors searched for direction amid lingering trade dispute tensions.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2019

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