tottering
Example Sentences
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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 beauty, the lusciousness, the humor and playfulness, the nuance are all here ... the movement of the heron in flight, of fish in the water, the tottering old aunties.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2023
A June study said the country's current energy provision was "critically unhealthy and tottering towards a power crisis".
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2023
“I’ll certainly try,” Bronwyn said, tottering toward the ledge with the rock balanced precariously on her hands.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
