Example Sentences

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It had been teetering on the edge of war since 2014.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2025

Up to that point, the Dodgers had been teetering on the brink of collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2024

One rock, it turned out, had been teetering in its delicate position for 50,000 years.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2023

Even before protests, Yemen had been teetering on the brink of failed statehood.

From Reuters • Mar. 16, 2011

I had been teetering on that boundary that divides sleep and wakefulness, imagining Papa coming to get us himself, imagining the rage in his red-tinged eyes, the burst of Igbo from his mouth.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie