totter
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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
Wrinkled women totter down tree-lined avenues; geese and chickens wander along village roadsides.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2016
We pulled around a comer, and I felt myself totter uncertainly and then lean into the door.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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 totters would pull out bigger pieces which might get stuck in machinery, he added.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022
The tiger-skin-clad fellow at the center of “Mad Man” totters close to the ground, grasping the string of a skull-embellished balloon as if the orb will keep him upright — or sane.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
At this point, the film totters into a redemptive sentimentality that wouldn’t even play if it were made to seem more earned.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
I open my mouth to say something, anything, but then two- year-old William Jr. totters in.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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
The first nine weeks of this season tottered into parity.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022
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
The guardsmen blew their horns, and the caravan tottered on into a loose marching formation.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Television and social media were filled with scenes of toppled and damaged buildings, including entire apartment blocks that appeared to be tottering as desperate residents camped out on the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
It is also another blow to the tottering system of international law.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
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
He regularly held Saturday morning sessions with experts on the tottering Soviet empire and led the George H.W.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
“This is . . . an unfortunate misunderstanding,” she said, tottering.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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