The uneven legs on the table caused it to teeter when used for dining. From LearnThat.org.
More simply put is what I call the teeter-totter principle. From Wordnik.com. [The Examiner Home RSS] Reference
Can a small boy "teeter" on a board against a big boy?. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
` ` The score was kind of teeter-tottering back and forth, but when we needed the big defensive plays, we got them. ''. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
We're on a kind of teeter totter and there is no way of knowing what the future will bring. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
The second cluster would be named "teeter," with a selected number of results presented from that cluster. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
They were shown in a make shift stage early dinner on the "teeter" nights so that we could go to enjoy it. From Wordnik.com. [Kottu] Reference
We got one of the teeter (ph) bands coming through. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008] Reference
This one is already starting to teeter and totter itself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2005] Reference
"We can't teeter-tauter any more, Sue," objected Bunny Brown. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
"You can't teeter-tauter and hold on with that in your hand.". From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
And I think that's why the polls are showing teeter - totter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room: Which Presidential Candidate Has the Best Resume? - November 1, 2000] Reference
"Let's go out in the yard and play teeter-tauter," called Bunny. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home] Reference
He literally helps Alina as we teeter around the set all the time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2009] Reference
Many of them bascule bridges -- that's French for "teeter-totter.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2004] Reference
"Yes, I guess I can teeter better if I don't have this," agreed Bunny. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
One was the teeter-totter scientific argument of nature versus nurture. From Wordnik.com. [THE GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER] Reference
No sooner did he ask the question than he began to teeter in his chair. From Wordnik.com. [Honeymoon]
"Oh, a teeter-tauter!" called Freddie, unable to restrain his joy any longer. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
We are going to see the temperatures teeter around inches, mid 30s for today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007] Reference
They are all a domino in a long, long line, and they ` re all starting to teeter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2007] Reference
She feels herself teeter-tottering between the left side of her head and the right. From Wordnik.com. [Animals, Animals, Animals] Reference
LEVIN: Because I think that the public loves watching celebrities teeter on a cliff. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2006] Reference
The skrode's third axle reached the ground, and he descended in a controlled teeter. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
The price of food's gone up, and the rector's salary gone down like a teeter on a log. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
He said do you want to try to win a teeter burl (ph), we're going to be on the Hudson. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009] Reference
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, as we teeter on the cusp of 2002, what can we expect?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2001] Reference
We're talking to people in the trenches watching their livelihoods teeter on the edge. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2009] Reference
At the end of the tent was a long board, which sprang up and down like a teeter tauter. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus] Reference
The political class has the most to lose if the shaky edifice it has erected begins to teeter. From Wordnik.com. [A Very Long Engagement] Reference
"I'll meet you over by the teeter-totters," and the boy eludes the grasp of the angry principal. From Wordnik.com. [High Stakes Transform Innocent World of Spelling Bees] Reference
When I got to Chickamauga Park, a swarm of kids covered the slides, the swings, the teeter-totters. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
Today, in dealing with Iran and Syria, Washington often seems to teeter between impotence and escalation. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEXT BATTLE: BRIDGING THE GREAT DIVIDE] Reference
In any nation-building exercise, the builders teeter to find balance between what is sustainable and what is politically necessary. From Wordnik.com. [What The United Nations Can Do] Reference
The rest of Ingersoll's empire had already begun to teeter under the burden of high interest payments and a slow advertising market. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Of The Marionettes] Reference
And in October, Zambia turned away 18,000 tons of U.S. corn, even though 3 million of its citizens teeter on the brink of starvation. From Wordnik.com. [The Fear Of Food] Reference
In the fourth quarter of 2008, global growth abruptly went into reverse, and the enormous edifice of globalization itself seemed to teeter. From Wordnik.com. [History Is Still Over] Reference
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