are teetering
- present progressive of teeter.
Example Sentences
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For all that inflation has drifted gently down, many still feel their household finances are teetering.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
While few people grow their own corn, piles of ears are teetering at the supermarket or farm stand this time of year.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
If you’re like me, that can get the anxiety up a bit, feeling like the actors are teetering on the edge of everything falling apart.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
They are teetering on a fall, if not perhaps a complete collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
And a hundred million years later, Jordie Duros, Clayton Pouncey, and I are teetering across a darkened parking lot, struggling under the weight of an eighty-pound bag.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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