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

Still, over the years, he’s occasionally been accused by critics of making his models — particularly the women — suffer, binding their arms to their sides or having them totter down runways in inhumane shoes.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 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

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

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

The organisms killed might, for all we know, be at the base of a vast ecological pyramid at the top of which totter we.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan