Examples of teeter in a Sentence
Verb
The pile of books teetered and fell to the floor.
She teetered down the street in her high heels.
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Alexandra Talty, New York Times, 17 May 2025
A number of celebrity guests, including Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner have arrived to previous Cannes Film Festivals in looks that teetered on the edge of full nudity—often using large jewelry pieces and sheer paneling to partially cover up the models’ otherwise exposed breasts.
—Elizabeth Grace Coyne, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
The palace’s black walls, a dungeon with rattling chains, a man in tuxedo and ram’s head groping a naked woman, Young Salome in her Wednesday Addams outfit — the whole gestalt teeters on the verge of black comedy and kitsch.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Argus’s founders believe its model can help save at least some of those small farms that are teetering on the edge.
—Alexandra Talty, New York Times, 17 May 2025
A number of celebrity guests, including Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner have arrived to previous Cannes Film Festivals in looks that teetered on the edge of full nudity—often using large jewelry pieces and sheer paneling to partially cover up the models’ otherwise exposed breasts.
—Elizabeth Grace Coyne, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
When this happens, often the characters in question are based on real people for whom the actors have adopted a reverential mimicry that teeters on possession on and off set.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
The palace’s black walls, a dungeon with rattling chains, a man in tuxedo and ram’s head groping a naked woman, Young Salome in her Wednesday Addams outfit — the whole gestalt teeters on the verge of black comedy and kitsch.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Teeter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teeter. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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