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 singer’s sweeping eyeliner, tottering heels and disheveled beehive are still instantly recognizable, 13 years after her death.
From New York Times • May 16, 2024
Rimal, the chubby-cheeked baby, recently began tottering around on her own two feet.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023
Two wooden gates hung open, and from the other side of the road, Alex could see a shed with a security window and beyond it the tottering piles of dead and broken cars.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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