How to Use yo-yo in a Sentence

yo-yo

noun

• Why the yo-yo price trends from week to week?
  — Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
• Gas prices are on a yo-yo string — up one week and down the next.
  — Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
• Or scoops the ball behind his back and low to the ground like a yo-yo on a string.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
• Gas prices are on a yo-yo string, dipping and rising from week to week.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
• Like this is the yo-yo that everybody fails at, inevitably.
  — Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
• Gas prices in Florida are on a yo-yo string — up and down, down and up.
  — Miami Herald, 21 July 2025
• Such yo-yo financing is considered a scam.
  — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
• The price of gas is on a yo-yo string again, rising this week after dropping by double digits.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2025
• Izzo’s team, meanwhile, has been a yo-yo since beginning the season ranked in the top five of both polls.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 30 Jan. 2024
• That Tom was a yo-yo expert was perfectly in tune with his character.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Watching tariffs was like trying to track a yo-yo while someone was performing stunts with it.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• The rise continues the yo-yo pattern in Florida gas prices.
  — Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
• That would continue the yo-yo pattern in Florida gas prices.
  — Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
• Shane Lowry also experienced a yo-yo day as depicted on a scorecard filled with joy and pain.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
• Picture a yo-yo — the consumer is pulled back into the dealership to renegotiate the deal at a worse terms.
  — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
• Terms such as escalator, aspirin and yo-yo became so common that their trademarks were canceled.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• Russell and Hamilton swapped the lead several times on the first few laps, the two taking turns like a yo-yo leading the early race.
  — ABC News, 13 Mar. 2026
• The decrease across Florida continues a yo-yo pattern that drivers have been seeing for months.
  — Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
• But the jump could be followed later this week by a decline, a yo-yo pattern drivers have been seeing for months in Florida.
  — Miami Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
• Think of playing with a yo-yo on a down escalator, up-and-down movement but generally pushing lower.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• The yo-yo movements also hit the bond market Thursday, as Treasury yields jumped in the morning with the price of oil and then eased back.
  — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
• There will also be vendor booths, live entertainment, food and drink and opportunities to meet with other yo-yo lovers.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Gates said the format of a yo-yo tournament is comparable to a figure skating tournament.
  — Kathryn Kovalenko, Twin Cities, 11 June 2025
• Doctors said the yo-yo of warm and cool temperatures is causing allergy symptoms to fluctuate.
  — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
• This provides investors with a predictable income stream which makes bonds much less uncertain than buying shares in a company as their price can rise and fall like a yo-yo.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026
• In the South, though, our yo-yo-ing weather might give way to a sense of false spring, encouraging these little seeds to burst forth before the time is right—or not at all.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
• Carolina has on a yo-yo for much of this season — a great win at Green Bay followed by a lousy loss to New Orleans.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 17 Nov. 2025
• Periodic use, therefore, creates potential for yo-yo dieting effects known to be harmful to the body.
  — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 12 Feb. 2026
• That’s your choice to prioritize more dependable success over bragging rights for coaxing a half dead super-choice plant through the vagaries of a yo-yo bit of winter.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Jan. 2026
• The brand may not attach itself to yo-yo dieting or see itself as a toxic overlord of dieting, but that was its material impact for many.
  — Chloe Laws, Glamour, 9 May 2025