totter

Example Sentences

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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

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

Between weeks two and three, they learn to stand, totter around like furry drunks, then walk steadily.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

Wrinkled women totter down tree-lined avenues; geese and chickens wander along village roadsides.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2016

The male seemed suddenly to totter, perhaps from the weight of its feathers or from the weight of rejection.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie