teeter on the brink/edge of something

Examples of teetering

teetering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

At this point, villages were teetering on the brink of famine as locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted.
In addition, we are further characterizing the pathology of teetering brain using immunohistochemical methods.
The wind-harp arpeggiation, complete with hairpin dynamic effect, mimics the teetering of the clock on his shoulders.
At a pessimistic extreme, the city, and not just the urban poor, was claimed to be teetering at the very brink.
A folk-like melody introduced a rustic quality, but there was an ever-present sense of danger, of teetering on the brink - the phrase 'dancing on a volcano' came to mind.
It is, finally, this juxtaposition-a consequence of the 1520 battle-that most tellingly conveys the sense of a city teetering on the edge of two aesthetic worlds.
Makerere was a university teetering on its last legs, an ivory tower that had lost touch with its environment and was at odds with national development needs.
The harbour workers and ancillary staff who rely on the white fish fleet for a living are now teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
They were teetering on the brink of nuclear war just weeks ago, and that threat has not gone away.
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