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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Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
Since 2009, Cupertino’s homelessness count has teetered back and forth, reaching a high of 159 in 2019.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Elaine L. Wang
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Neither of them understands the other’s dynamic with Daniel, and the split-episode format keeps our sympathies teeter-tottering between each woman.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Although the film strays drastically from Stephen King's novel, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a complex film that teeters between the psychological and supernatural horror subgenres.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
Since 2009, Cupertino’s homelessness count has teetered back and forth, reaching a high of 159 in 2019.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.
—Elaine L. Wang
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Neither of them understands the other’s dynamic with Daniel, and the split-episode format keeps our sympathies teeter-tottering between each woman.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Teeter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teeter. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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