totter

She watches a humanoid robot totter around a demonstration kitchen until it trips on a chair and clatters to the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

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

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

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

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

Emma planted her hands on the small of Bronwyn’s back and pushed, and finally both Bronwyn and the door tottered forward onto dry land.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Councilmember Charles Allen said he was visiting family in east Tennessee more than decade ago when his 2-year-old niece went tottering off toward the mailbox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

It is also another blow to the tottering system of international law.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

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 stalks were up to Cora’s shoulders now, bending and tottering, sprouting leaves and squares that were bigger every morning.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead