Sentence examples for seesaw that from inspiring English sources

A gargantuan seesaw that allows a few children to lift many.

"Banzuke" presents a variety of challenges: fiendishly difficult obstacle courses that must be navigated by bicycle or on stilts, say, or a timed rice-barrel relay conducted on a huge seesaw that mustn't touch the ground.

The motion, Mr. Mitchell said, starts with a tiny head movement that progresses to the chest to create a seesaw that forces the hips up and down, ending with a powerful kick.

The new equipment includes a jungle gym with towers designed to look like Halliburton oil derricks, a seesaw that resembles a Brigham pump jack, and a tunnel for children to crawl in that bears the name and logo of Enbridge, a pipeline operator.

In an odd microcosm of the bizarre seesaw that played out on national television in the wee hours, Dianne Byrum, the Democratic candidate for the Eighth Congressional District, declared victory at 12 15 a.m., only to take it back around breakfast.

Most fingers are pointing at the Arctic Oscillation (AO), an erratic atmospheric seesaw that can change wind patterns and thus affect ice thickness, notes Rothrock.

The most widely used nonmotorized devices are wobble boards, usually made of wood or plastic materials, with hemispherical or hemicylindrical bases (seesaws) that create instability in all spatial directions or a given plane [ 30].

Such an image is a centerpiece of the campaign: a seesaw, or teeter-totter, that is meant to symbolize what Ms. Lifeso calls "our teeter-totter world".

But, for third place, Germany prevailed over Uruguay in a seesaw thriller that ended 3 2.

In a slight wrinkle to that pattern on Wednesday, shares of investment and commercial banks moved higher, extending a seesaw cycle that began with a painful plunge on Monday and turned into a rally on Tuesday.

Magazine advertising pages declined in June after rising in May and falling in April, maintaining the seesaw pattern that held for much of last year, according to data released yesterday by the Publishers Information Bureau.