teetering
Example Sentences
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Teetering on poverty and unable to secure appropriate housing from the local council, Sandra endeavors to build herself and her girls a home fit for a family with the help of the community.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2021
Teetering between two worlds – New Hampshire, where he is a student, and Los Angeles – he appears to have seen some light.
From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2019
Teetering on the edge of oblivion for that long contorts the hardiest souls, and facing such a fate as a juvenile molded Daniel into a pathological introvert.
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2016
Teetering teams with job openings often reach backward to pluck hope for the future, ghosts summoned to raise the spirit of a new generation.
From New York Times • May 24, 2013
Teetering back as if on the edge of the swimming pool: comic yodel, windmilling arms.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
