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  • Teetering piles of children's books.
  • Teetered on the brink of a change in power.
  • Teetering at the edge of spinsterhood, is an attractive, educated working girl.
  • Teetering pretty close to the edge.
  • Teeter precariously over the abyss of the merely decorative.
  • Teetered out with buckets, rushed the water down the slide's length in one black stain.
  • Teeter down the hill and safely away.
  • Teetering boulders, resting on the edge.
  • Teeters on the verge of collapse.
  • Teetered just above the horizon as the train worked slowly round the curve.
  • Teeter over to her spot in the playground and make her feel over-done.
  • Teeter on the edge, he's supposed to stay behind the hedge.
  • But all over the world constitutional democracies are now teetering on a 50:50 basis.
  • Teetering around on severely shortened lengths of flaky drainpipe.
  • Teetered on the precipice of division three.
  • Even before the foot and mouth outbreak, thousands of small farmers were already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.
  • Teeters on top of the unstable tower, threatening to drop onto the base.
  • In fact the only problem both films suffer from is that they are constantly teetering on the cusp of disappearing up their own backside.
  • Teetering on the tacky side, this theme bar would be more at home in disneyland than in the deep south.
  • Only when the vocals of peter simpson peep out, gratuitously stoked with echo, does the edifice occasionally teeter.

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