teeter

Object

• pile: There's my study that is stacked high with teetering piles of children's books.
• boulder: A climb up bedrock about five foot high with very large and 1 medium teetering boulders, resting on the edge.

Preposition: on

• brink: Hundreds of years ago, the country teetered on the brink of a change in power.
• verge: In the 21st century, the city of Freeport teeters on the verge of collapse.
• edge: He liked to teeter on the edge, He's supposed to stay behind the hedge.
• precipice: A year later his lackluster team teetered on the precipice of Division Three.
• top: It teeters on top of the unstable tower, threatening to drop onto the base.
• side: Teetering on the tacky side, this theme bar would be more at home in Disneyland than in the deep south.

Preposition: at

• edge: Prudence, who at 29 is teetering at the edge of spinsterhood, is an attractive, educated working girl.

Adjective complement

• close: Paul does his best to look after his mother and his brother, but Mel is teetering pretty close to the edge.

Modifying Another Word

• precariously: Unfortunately its contents, like its packaging, teeter precariously over the abyss of the merely decorative.
• just: With shadows now tending to infinity, the sun teetered just above the horizon as the train worked slowly round the curve.
• now: But all over the world constitutional democracies are now teetering on a 50:50 basis.
• already: Even before the foot and mouth outbreak, thousands of small farmers were already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.
• constantly: In fact the only problem both films suffer from is that they are constantly teetering on the cusp of disappearing up their own backside.
• occasionally: Only when the vocals of Peter Simpson peep out, gratuitously stoked with echo, does the edifice occasionally teeter.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• out: At night we teetered out with buckets, Rushed the water down the slide's length In one black stain.
• over: Put them on and teeter over to her spot in the playground and make her feel over-done.
• around: There's us teetering around on severely shortened lengths of flaky drainpipe.

Followed by a transitive particle

• down: I sipped a latte and watched the mail truck teeter down the hill and safely away.