teeter-tottering

The chair kept teeter-tottering on the wooden floor, making a clicking noise, which bounced off the yellow walls and back into the boy's ears.

Breadcrumbs Alex M. Pruteanu 2011

She glanced up: Shay had landed on the hoverboard, setting it teeter-tottering wildly.

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

` ` The score was kind of teeter-tottering back and forth, but when we needed the big defensive plays, we got them. ''

USATODAY.com 2008

The rest of us, well, we keep teeter-tottering between the feeling that we can actually do this and the opposite feeling that we are out of our minds.

Confidence vs. humility Janet Ursel 2009

The rest of us, well, we keep teeter-tottering between the feeling that we can actually do this and the opposite feeling that we are out of our minds.

Confidence vs. humility Janet Ursel 2009

The rest of us, well, we keep teeter-tottering between the feeling that we can actually do this and the opposite feeling that we are out of our minds.

Archive 2009-02-08 Janet Ursel 2009

The Clintons are teeter-tottering on the edge of becomming laughable.

Sheldon Drobny: What's Wrong With The Clintons: The Emperor Has No Clothes 2008

And there's a benefit to me: I am steady enough for the bigger stretch through my whole upper body -- no teeter-tottering on my tippy toes.

Janet Carlson: How Ballroom Dancing Saved My Life 2008

Both were great in terms of speaking to their respective bases and Biden was clearly better at actual substance ... but for the teeter-tottering undecideds who were previously leaning towards the McPalin happy meal but might have been (rightfully) scared by her Couric interviews, she may have brought them back into the fold last night.

doggone you betchya 2008

She feels herself teeter-tottering between the left side of her head and the right.

Animals, Animals, Animals 2008