Sentence examples for teetered between from inspiring English sources

Fuld had collected more than $500 million in salary, bonuses and stock options during his 14-year tenure as head of Lehman, during which time he'd stewarded the firm and its 26,000 employees into a mess so great that the fallout from its collapse teetered between destabilizing and debilitating the American financial system -- ultimately falling somewhere in between.

The prospect teetered between fascinating and horrifying.

Long before this season, he teetered between dominance and doom.

Tuesday's audience teetered between giggling and being grossed out.

In my mind, my answer teetered between sincerity and dry humour.

Each teetered between control and chaos, usually extinguishing the threats with a timely third out.

Turkey was teetering between east and west.

To us, they teeter between the insufferable and the transcendent.

Teetering between the two extremes, Stuckler reckons, is Britain.

Because of such moments, caregivers teeter between hope and despair.

In between sit some 16,000 apartments at risk, teetering between stability and disrepair.