How to Use pendulum in a Sentence

pendulum

noun

• But there was time for one more pendulum swing.
  — James Hansen, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
• Slide the weight up to slow the pendulum down, or slide the weight down to speed it up.
  — Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2019
• Chests are struck with pendulums.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
• Users can remove the pendulum to place it on a shelf or hang it on a wall.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2021
• None of that seemed to stop the pendulum from swinging.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
• Of course, the clock runs slower as the pendulum gets longer.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
• For me, that’s one of the reasons the pendulum is against the wall.
  — Michael Hainey, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
• Think about how much the pendulum has swung in the last 12 months.
  — Tim Hagen, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The lantern, hung on the A-frame, swung like a pendulum.
  — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
• The second new ride will be a pendulum-style slide with a half-pipe shape.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2018
• As the decades pass, the pendulum swings between hard and soft regimes.
  — Ian McEwan, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
• Design trends tend to swing like a pendulum.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2026
• On the other side of the ring, the girl paced back and forth like the pendulum on an old clock.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• The pendulum has swung one way before.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• Find your own way to swing the pendulum in the direction of love.
  — The Rev. Ellin Dize, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Nov. 2019
• The recent strike is just one swing of the pendulum in a long struggle.
  — Adam Hanft, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
• For too long, baseball has swung from one end of the pendulum to the other.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 Nov. 2020
• So there’s a lot of us that are hoping for the pendulum to swing the other way.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2025
• The pendulum then swung from bad to worse for Haverhill.
  — Justin Barrasso, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
• If the speed is low enough, the pendulum will oscillate back and forth.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
• For instance, there’s more than one way to look at the motion of a pendulum.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2026
• This go-around, the pendulum appears to have swung the other way.
  — Evan Drellich, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
• The pendulum has swung too far, and the system isn’t working.
  — Anthony P. Carnevale, Washington Post, 22 June 2018
• Now the pendulum is swinging back.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
• This is the constant pendulum swing.
  — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
• And then, this season, more of the same, with wild swings of the playing-time pendulum.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026
• So, why the sudden pendulum swing?
  — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
• That is because the pendulum of culture has swung.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 4 Mar. 2026
• That's the winter we Hoosiers are used to, but this week, the pendulum will swing back.
  — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2018
• Now, the pendulum is swinging back.
  — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026