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Synonyms for seesaw


Grammar : Verb
Spell : see-saw
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsiˌsɔ



Définition of seesaw

  • verb move back and forth
Example sentences :
  • They are blame and guilt, and they are like the two ends of a seesaw.
  • Extract from : « When You Don't Know Where to Turn » by Steven J. Bartlett
  • That's the way of the world, though, seesaw, one up and the other down.
  • Extract from : « Asa Holmes » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • They seesaw backward and forward, first one way and then the other.
  • Extract from : « Geoffrey Hampstead » by Thomas Stinson Jarvis
  • He pressed him to end the seesaw policy of the last six months.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) » by John Holland Rose
  • The boys also spin tops, and they play "seesaw," and jump the rope.
  • Extract from : « Big People and Little People of Other Lands » by Edward R. Shaw
  • A heavy timber which they lifted from across his back, where it had lain like a seesaw, must have all but broken his spine.
  • Extract from : « Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • We'd be out on the seesaw, but old Miss didn't know what we doin'.
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves » by Work Projects Administration
  • A funny sort of a seesaw is the result, which is the source of much merriment among the spectators.
  • Extract from : « Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera » by Charles M. Taylor, Jr.
  • He was; but earthworks or a massive wooden shield arranged like a seesaw over his gun gave him fair protection.
  • Extract from : « Artillery Through the Ages » by Albert Manucy
  • There came a seesaw rocking, then a rebound, and a heavy thud told where the trunk had fallen.
  • Extract from : « The Other Fellow » by F. Hopkinson Smith

Antonyms for seesaw

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