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toddle

[tod-l] / ˈtɒd l /
VERB
walk unsteadily
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Beckham watched his son, Zydn, toddle outside an auditorium before he walked in.

From Washington Post Apr. 13, 2023

When she was younger, Malaya Majam-Finch would toddle into the living room of her grandparents’ quaint house in La Mirada and find, essentially, an open-air trophy case.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2023

"Seeing how they were so heavy handed we thought, shall we toddle off to Truro Crown Court and take them to court."

From BBC May 13, 2022

One morning, the 17-year-old, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor, woke before dawn to the pleas of her son, six months old, who wanted to toddle along the floor and play.

From New York Times Jul. 11, 2020

I stand up and toddle toward the camera, smiling, trying out my wave .

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

She keeps busy taking care of Varvara, now 2, who toddles everywhere with no fear and loves British chocolate.

From Seattle Times Feb. 18, 2023

My youngest happily toddles alongside them, though she has no friends closer to her own age.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2020

She scrambles from my arms and toddles fast and fearlessly into the surf.

From Salon Feb. 1, 2019

Back on the ground, take a trip back in time aboard an Electriquette—a battery-powered wicker cart that toddles along at 3 mph.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2016

Holding her hand, I attempt to lead Geak to sit on the sheets, but she pulls out of my hand and toddles over to Pa. He picks her up and holds her to his chest.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

On a recent morning, a 16-month-old boy toddled up a small embankment to touch wind chimes hanging from trees.

From Seattle Times May 22, 2024

My brother’s lungs were formed in West Louisville, where he toddled on plump baby legs toward all the people who loved him.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2024

And so every weekday morning, a stream of little research subjects toddled off of a school bus, into the lab.

From Scientific American Oct. 26, 2023

The door to the visitation room swung open, and a boy not more than 3 feet tall toddled behind his mom and big siblings, bundled in a big winter jacket.

From Washington Times Oct. 22, 2022

He toddled over to his diaper bag, and came back with a battered book, a copy of The Velveteen Rabbit that had belonged to his grandfather and his mother and Ivy and Lucinda before him.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Belatedly spotting her, and 14-month-old son Bennett, who was toddling on to the green, Scheffler's typically muted response changed.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2025

These are exactly what they sound like: reels of A.I.–rendered babies dressed in cute little costumes, with giant eyes and smiling mouths, toddling down a runway.

From Slate Dec. 28, 2024

His power is not merely confined to his toddling whimsy or our longstanding friendship with him.

From Salon Feb. 3, 2024

“I don’t know how to vote,” Oceguera said as he kept an eye on their year-old grandson toddling outside their blue house.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2022

And the girl whose twin had died; she was younger than the yellow-haired one, just toddling, but she giggled and shrieked with the others, playing catch-me-while-I’m-running.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry




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