tottering
Example Sentences
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It is also another blow to the tottering system of international law.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 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 girl was tottering forward, bent at the waist, one arm draped protectively across the taut drum of her belly, the shape of which was visible through her burqa.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
