How to Use teeter in a Sentence

teeter

1 of 2 verb

• The pile of books teetered and fell to the floor.
• She teetered down the street in her high heels.
• In response to my prod, the bot merely teeters.
  — James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
• In response to my prod, the bot merely teeters.
  — James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• The school has been teetering for years.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
• Thailand has teetered on the brink of meltdown for almost half a year now.
  — Time, 26 July 2023
• Since then, employment has teetered down in some months and up in others.
  — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Feb. 2026
• For the first time ever my weight now teeters at the tippy, tippy top of that green zone.
  — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 16 Apr. 2026
• The equally high price points, which often teeter in the triple digits for pots, pans, blenders and more.
  — Melissa Lee, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2020
• In the present day, humanity teeters on the edge of collapse.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
• Oasis often seemed to teeter at the edge of self-destruction.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
• In the last gallery, a magnificent black spider teetered on steel talons.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
• The offense teeters on becoming too reliant on the pass.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
• High above them, teetering on the starting bench, is the woman who brought them here.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• Video from the agency showed the demise of one home as ocean waves caused the stilts supporting the house to teeter and fall.
  — Jamiel Lynch and Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 11 May 2022
• Two cars teetered at the jagged edge, their noses tipped skyward, almost frozen in the instant before a plunge.
  — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
• There were also some moments in which his season teetered on the edge of disaster.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
• An owlish owner who happens to know what’s in that teetering tower by the door.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• With these teetering burgers, there’s little need for sides.
  — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
• Siwa has teetered between niche fame and lucrative stardom for more than half her young life.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
• That means that vote after vote over the next two years will likely teeter on a parliamentary cliff.
  — Fox News, 10 Jan. 2023
• The entire river system now teeters on the brink, and this year’s snow drought may be what pushes it over the edge.
  — Jonathan Thompson, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026
• The game constantly felt on the edge, sometimes teetering over, from the first kick to the last.
  — Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 13 May 2026
• Since college football’s house of cards started to teeter over the weekend, there has been pushback.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• Genesis is the latest in a parade of crypto firms to teeter near collapse.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 6 Jan. 2023
• This team is currently teetering on the precipice of contention.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
• Everything teeters on the verge of going bad, and weekend plans often get in the way of cooking through them.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
• The recent protein hubbub is teetering on overblown—not every snack food needs to be jacked up with the stuff.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 8 Oct. 2025
• There’s long been an expectation that women would teeter down the red carpet on stilettos.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
• The current war raging in Ukraine means happiness in other parts of the world could teeter as well.
  — Marnie Hunter, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022

teeter

2 of 2 noun

• Gas prices at the pump teeter in the $4 range.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
• How great was the teeter-tunnel?
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
• There were swings, a big yard, climbing bars and a teeter totter.
  — Judy Peterson, The Mercury News, 25 May 2017
• As offline sales teeter, the online world shows some promise.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 28 Sep. 2022
• Both have the same way of walking—a bit of a teeter, without much swinging of arms.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• Vince teeters on the edge of so many emotions in this song, which is an incredible feat.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 5 Apr. 2018
• Now, in 2021, the Tokyo Olympics teeter on the brink once again.
  — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 16 May 2021
• Each room in the apartment teeters between safe haven and battleground.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
• The Tesla teeters between ending up on its roof or settling back on its wheels.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018
• That helps, of course, as his average teeters around the Mendoza Line.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 23 May 2018
• Midnight As the clock teeters between days, police receive the most calls.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• Those trying to change the field teeter between optimism and despair.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 14 Dec. 2021
• The girl teeters on the deck, as the bleach-blonde Latina who’s teaching her offers her arm for balance.
  — Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Pitchfork, 18 Sep. 2023
• All the while, a humanitarian crisis teeters from bad to worse.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Both are perfectly capable of turning sequences that teeter on the edge of bathos into brawls.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
• The act ended with one member donning a blindfold while getting launched off the teeter totter and through a flaming hoop.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
• As oceans and forests transform and ecosystems go into shock, perhaps a million species teeter on the edge of extinction.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 23 July 2019
• The moon also dampens the amount that Earth teeters on its axis, helping to keep our climate more stable.
  — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
• Wolfenstein 2 teeters between dark and disturbing at one moment, then schlocky and B-movie the next.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2017
• This resurgence of the cape, and its modern takes, result in a trend that teeters between modesty, glamour, and high drama.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2023
• Illinois teeters on the edge of a recession because union pension obligations are far too high to repay at any tax rate.
  — Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2018
• That road teeters on the edge of crumbling 20 feet down into the lake, as waves crash into the dunes and carve out the road's foundation.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2020
• The band’s fevered rave-ups and corporal rhythms teeter just on the edge of collapse and take half a century of New York noise with them.
  — Jenn Pelly, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
• Determined to save her family, Chris courts death in the darkest reaches of the ocean in a last-ditch effort as the plane teeters on the abyss.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• If the eastern brigades teeter, Kyiv might have no choice but to strip forces from the southern front in order to reinforce Donbas.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• If Cabernet Sauvignon teeters between fruit and herb, Omen’s version is solidly fruit.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• There’s more to do, more to see, more to remember, and the breadth of the game teeters constantly between challenging and overwhelming.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 30 June 2019
• The Vikings’ lead teeter-tottered around 20 points midway through the second half before the Panthers would cut in late.
  — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022
• Today, 68 years after the arrival of the vaccine, the disease teeters on the verge of disappearance.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
• Around us teeter stacks of books on the royal family and a pile of Freedom of Information requests.
  — Charlie Baker, Air Mail, 23 May 2026