Get to know Teetered better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Teetered meaning
simple past and past participle of teeter
Using Teetered
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of teeter
- In the example corpus, teetered often appears in combinations such as: teetered on, has teetered, teetered between.
Context around Teetered
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Teetered
- In this selection, "teetered" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, king, balance, career, toward, physically and onto stand out and add context to how "teetered" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 80s then teetered on personal and american one teetered on the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "teetered" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with teetered
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Somewhere along the way, the balance teetered toward doing the thing. (11 words)
Just hard work and a commitment to change, knowing his career teetered on the brink. (15 words)
Employment has teetered between marginal increases and decreases over the past five months, essentially holding steady. (16 words)
Those American variations and especially their later descendants, like Lanford Wilson’s “The Hot L Baltimore,” often teetered on the brink of both melodramatic bathos and quippy sitcom humor, in which everybody’s armed with zingers. (36 words)
Since then, hospitals in El Centro, Montebello, Hawkins and Visalia have all teetered on the brink of collapse, with one declaring bankruptcy and another being taken over by a state university to prevent its closure. (35 words)
The young turks within SF also had an ossified 'ancient regime' to topple: John Campbell's intolerant right-wing editorials for 'Astounding Science Fiction' (which he renamed 'Analog' in 1960) teetered on the self parody. (35 words)
Example sentences (17)
A whale moved more than $234 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) in a single transaction this past weekend as the crypto king teetered at $40,000.
Employment has teetered between marginal increases and decreases over the past five months, essentially holding steady.
Since then, hospitals in El Centro, Montebello, Hawkins and Visalia have all teetered on the brink of collapse, with one declaring bankruptcy and another being taken over by a state university to prevent its closure.
Somewhere along the way, the balance teetered toward doing the thing.
Cher rightly perceives that her origins as the child of drifters and chancers who occasionally hit it big and more often teetered on the brink of homelessness shaped both her character and her career.
Irish football, as long as we've known it, has teetered between despair and euphoria with little in between but boring 1-1 draws against Georgia.
Just hard work and a commitment to change, knowing his career teetered on the brink.
Those American variations and especially their later descendants, like Lanford Wilson’s “The Hot L Baltimore,” often teetered on the brink of both melodramatic bathos and quippy sitcom humor, in which everybody’s armed with zingers.
A lot of ideas were batted around congress in the waning minutes of Friday night, as the government teetered on the edge of a shutdown.
Half a century later, the Soviet empire imploded and for a brief moment in 2008, the American one teetered on the brink, having been taken there by its vanguard, finance capital.
He was handling them when his son Donald made his mark with Trump Tower in the early '80s, then teetered on personal bankruptcy in the '90s.
Kilgrave’s power was great, but he exercised it with the pettiness that particular power inspires; Jones’s power, meanwhile, teetered, physically potent but emotionally spent.
Our vehicle teetered onto the abandoned railway in the station and began to roll – right toward a gap in the track.
The Christie administration stripped major decision-making powers from Atlantic City officials in November 2016 as the city’s finances teetered on the edge of bankruptcy.
The deal has teetered on the brink of collapse since New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil-rights lawsuit against the company this month, seeking to block the sale.
Right up until 1940, Carol's foreign policy teetered uneasily between the traditional alliance with France and an alignment with the newly-ascendant power of Germany.
The young turks within SF also had an ossified 'ancient regime' to topple: John Campbell's intolerant right-wing editorials for 'Astounding Science Fiction' (which he renamed 'Analog' in 1960) teetered on the self parody.
Common combinations with teetered
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- teetered on 10×
- has teetered 3×
- teetered between 2×
- often teetered 2×