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Example sentences for "teeter"

Lexicographically close words:
teens; teenth; teenty; teepee; teepees; teetered; teetering; teeth; teethe; teething
  1. The two longest fingers form the teeter-tarter; half of the teeter is on one side and half on the opposite side of the fence.

  2. The fence is made by the other parts of the hands, which, crossing each other, fit snugly and tightly, leaving the teeter free to swing back and forth at will.

  3. Move the long fingers and watch the teeter go up and down, first one end then the other, just like a real teeter made of a board across a fence.

  4. Take the dollies off the teeter and let them rest for a while and watch you build a church.

  5. To-day I did teeter the baby on the bed as she said.

  6. The mamma does have me to rock it and rock it and teeter it on the bed and walk the floor with it.

  7. While I did teeter the baby I did look looks out the window.

  8. I did go to teeter the baby on the bed as the mamma did say for me to do.

  9. I went back to the bed to teeter the baby.

  10. No, it is not a satisfying arrangement, that I should teeter insecurely through the void on a gob of mud, and be expected by and by to relinquish even that crazy foothold.

  11. When Jake Martin finally appeared at Sandy's door to formally assert his ownership, Mr. Teeter met him.

  12. Everyone, from old Granny Teeter in the front row to little Jamie Gordon down in the primary class, sang with all his might.

  13. Jake Martin had not resorted to the law as he had threatened, neither had Tom Teeter relaxed his vigilance.

  14. Mrs. Teeter did when she recounted her troubles of the early pioneer days, or when Oro's Orator had been fighting again.

  15. Tom Teeter came over after tea to give his opinion upon poor old Sandy's case.

  16. So the countryside settled down for the winter, and as Christmas approached the Martin-Teeter conflict ceased to occupy the public mind.

  17. Tom Teeter had come over and was talking to her father as the latter hoed in the vegetable garden, and Tom always had candies in his pockets.

  18. Mr. Teeter joyfully invited him to have all he could get of it; but the enemy hesitated.

  19. She ran to him now, and, as there was only Tom Teeter to see, ventured to slip her hand into his as she walked by his side.

  20. Mr. Teeter was an Irishman, with a fine gift for speech-making.

  21. The schoolmaster had been overheard saying to Tom Teeter that he had spent all one Saturday forenoon reading "Innocents Abroad.

  22. When the Jarvis property had been put up for sale, Mr. Martin had looked with a longing eye upon the Teeter farm, where The Dale stood.

  23. Early in the evening Mother MacAllister and Charles Stuart came over, and Granny Teeter returned their visit, bringing with her Auntie Jinit McKerracher, who had dropped in.

  24. John hired with Tom Teeter for the summer, and Charles Stuart toiled all day in his own fields.

  25. Individual teeter boards may be made by placing a 2 x 8 board in the ground, and fastening the teeter board to it by means of iron braces placed on each side of the upright piece.

  26. Teeter boards may be made by planting posts ten or twelve feet apart, and placing a pole or a rounded 6 x 6 on top of them, and then placing boards, upon which the children may teeter.

  27. This teeter tauter and the explanation of the druggist scales," said the father, "show you that many of our conveniences are due to the lever in one way or another.

  28. The teeter board is made of a 2 by 12-in.

  29. Paul Teeter thinks we might have a chance in the next election, given enough dough to plow into it.

  30. When Teeter and Morazzoni were gone, the three stood alone in the corridor, looking at each other.

  31. Holy smokes," Paul Teeter protested, moping his face with a handkerchief.

  32. Teeter said, "How do we know we can trust you?

  33. Teeter placed the ends of the rubber tubes one in each of two glasses before Joe could answer.

  34. If it was Peaches, Teeter and their friends, he did not want to shut them out, but, on the contrary might want to join the fun.

  35. Teeter when they came to have their last raps in the ninth.

  36. George is short, I'm on third, and Teeter holds down first sometimes.

  37. Teeter was the first to congratulate him, and the others followed.

  38. From the packages Teeter had brought he took some other corks.

  39. He was mistaken in thinking that Hiram had no friends there, however, for no sooner had Teeter asked the last question than Jake Weston arose and asked in rather sneering tones: "Do you call this giving a fellow a square deal?

  40. Teeter admiringly from behind the bat as the ball landed in his mitt.

  41. Well, we'll have to get busy next week," remarked Teeter as he slowly sipped his glass.

  42. Tom, Joe, Peaches and Teeter tried to get more out, but there were various excuses, and it might be noted that aside from Teeter and Peaches not one of the former regular nine appeared.

  43. Teeter when he had warmly clasped Joe's hand.

  44. Or you, Sister," and Teeter looked at the newcomers.

  45. And I spoze they did make her think of Teeter and mebby his possible successor.

  46. And Blandina Teeter he spozed she could run my sewin' machine under the sugar maple.

  47. She had been a widder some years; Teeter had used her shameful, spent her property and throwed her round considerable, but still she kep' up her perennial love and passionate adoration of man.

  48. The lesser sandpipers, both the spotted and the solitary, teeter along the brooks and ponds, and probe the shallows for tiny worms.

  49. Teeter, turning towards Peter and bobbing and bowing as only Teeter can.

  50. It was Teeter the Spotted Sandpiper, an old friend of Peter's.

  51. Do you suppose that I live neighbor to Teeter and don't know where his nest is and all about his affairs?

  52. He showed it as he stared down at Mrs. Teeter just in front of him.

  53. There isn't much," replied Peter, "excepting that Teeter the Sandpiper has four eggs just a little way from here.

  54. Mrs. Teeter slipped back on the eggs and settled herself comfortably.

  55. Just then Mrs. Teeter came hurrying up and squatted down in the sand right in front of Peter.

  56. Before Peter could say another word Teeter came running towards him, and it was plain to see that Teeter was very anxious about something.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teeter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alternate; alternation; change; cower; dodder; flitter; flounder; fluctuate; halt; limp; metronome; oscillate; pendulum; quiver; reciprocate; reciprocation; reel; rocker; seesaw; shake; shift; shuffle; shuttle; stagger; sway; swing; teeter; teetering; totter; tottering; tremble; turn; vary; vibrator; waver; wigwag; wobble; zigzag