toddle
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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
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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
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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
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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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