totter

If New York falls, the entire free world may again totter on its foundations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Mr Mohamed, from Poole, was working as a "totter", sorting waste by hand at the yard in Mannings Heath Road, the court heard.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022

Next we made a short descent to totter over tide pools, marveling at neon-green anemones, until a hefty spray of salty water showered us from the spouting horn of Thor’s Well.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2021

We totter on high heels that make us weak and vulnerable.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2017

Through tear-blurred eyes Lyra saw her totter and clutch at a bench; her face, so beautiful and composed, grew in a moment haggard and horror-struck.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Coaxed and tugged by rangers, a blindfolded giraffe totters into the specialised vehicle that will transport it away from an increasingly hostile environment to a new home in Kenya's eastern Rift Valley.

From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025

The stylist puts her in a pair of incredibly high rose-gold heels and she totters around delightedly: “I’m terrible in heels. I look like a little baby trying them on.”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2018

The lithe Alan Naylor, in drag as the rapacious talent agent Sylvia St. Croix, sets the frothy tone as he totters on high heels and wearing fur.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2016

"As the over-the-hill glamourpuss in Andrew Lloyd Webber's groundbreaking musical, she totters on like a feline Miss Havisham, delivering his best song, Memory, with an internalised regret," he wrote.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2014

In front of him totters a German officer in field dress.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Sri Lanka has been gradually easing import restrictions, which were imposed as the country's economy tottered from a financial crisis caused by a severe shortage of dollars.

From Reuters ● Aug. 15, 2023

Lunch arrived soon afterwards with Balderson feasting on figures of 2-2-0-3, while Essex tottered on 34-4.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022

He knocked once more, and an elderly woman in blue slippers and a long coat tottered out the gate, a floral bonnet over her silver hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

I tottered up a narrow stairwell to the warmth and noise of the third-floor apartment.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022

Slowly, the dog’s growls ceased — it tottered on its paws and fell to its knees, then it slumped to the ground, fast asleep.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

This is a comic epic of bursting balloons and black eyes, tipsy aunts and tottering uncles, an errant mouse and driving snows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

But just as the left-hander was getting going, Starc pounced again, trapping him lbw for 21 to leave England tottering on 33-2.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

The singer’s sweeping eyeliner, tottering heels and disheveled beehive are still instantly recognizable, 13 years after her death.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

Rimal, the chubby-cheeked baby, recently began tottering around on her own two feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

Before Aunty Uju went into the bedroom, tottering under her many anxieties, she said, “Please just pray that it will work.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie