Teeter in a sentence as a noun

" We don't have slides or teeter-totters or 20% time or any of that nonsense.

I'm pretty certain the umbilical snag caused the rocket to teeter.

Even a single percent will teeter you to a losing proposition.

There is no "deserve".The author seemed to teeter between inspiration and self destructive guilt.

"They know they will be protected by a taxpayer rescue should a large institution teeter.

That sidebar is just a bunch of comforting words; a long-form sales blurb for people that want to read something while they teeter on the fence.

Yes, it's a bit weird, and yes, it does teeter right on the edge of the comments as syntactic value precipice, but I think lands just on the alright side.

Teeter in a sentence as a verb

I think it's easier to raise/lower a chair that has only one thing in it--my butt--than to raise/lower a desk that has many, many things on it, some of which teeter around a bit. When I had a standing desk, I occasionally used a stool that had foot rests built into it.

But it was sufficiently controversial to get enough downvotes in order for my comments to teeter around 0 points and also receive flags.

There were seven future Nobel Prize-winning physicists pondering the universe on those teeter totters.

Aside from any obvious or glaring safety issues, ideas like this one, that teeter on the reality-joke line, are the exact ones that bring about true disruption.

Definitely the case at a Harris teeter in Arlington Virginia, it was on the edge of my hearing so I could identify it... Saw a lot of bewildered parents with upset babies.

Small companies, like start-ups, wouldn't be required to purchase health insurance and people whose earnings teeter at the edge of "ramen profitable" would likely be eligible for extensive subsidy.

It's very convenient to build your knowledge on the fulcrum of every community teeter-totter, the sheet-metal of every bike-shed, the fundamental logic from which all abstractions are born and all abstractions can be decomposed.

Teeter definitions

noun

a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

See also: seesaw teeter-totter teetertotter teeterboard

verb

move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

See also: seesaw totter