ups and downs
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Heidi and Mike had their ups and downs, but they stayed married for more than 60 years."
- "So it is the world wags: that honest men and knaves alike are always having ups and downs of fortune, and that we are perpetually changing tenants in Our Street."
- "But their friendship was not without its ups and downs, nor did they embark on many joint undertakings."
- "Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments."
- "[...] speed barely exceeded 30 m.p.h. until well beyond Kelty and from the front end the ups-and-downs of the track occasioned by pitfalls are very noticeable."