tottering

[US]/'tɔtəriŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. unsteady, wavering

Example Sentences

a hunched figure tottering down the path.

a tottering skeleton of a horse; a tottery old man.

It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid of Father Elysee.

The tottering old man leaned on his cane for support.

The tottering stack of books collapsed with a loud crash.

She caught the tottering toddler before he fell.

The tottering economy needs stability to recover.

The tottering building was deemed unsafe and evacuated.

He managed to steady the tottering ladder before anyone got hurt.

The tottering business was on the brink of bankruptcy.

She held onto the tottering table to keep it from falling over.

The tottering bridge was closed for repairs.

The tottering old house was in desperate need of renovation.

Real-world Examples

And I was there and then I was tottering and then oh, boom, I fell.

Source: Tips for IELTS Speaking.

" Hey! " said Ron, who had staggered to his feet and was now tottering drunkenly towards Harry, giggling.

Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hermione was barely visible behind a tottering pile of books.

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

He looked them over, as a sober man looks at a crowd of tottering drunks and shook his head.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 3

Perceives the tottering steps when she stumbles and slips through the snow, her disproportionate body on those tiny feet.

Source: A man named Ove decides to die.

Hope to sleep to-night without tottering nerve-dreams.

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

" I have, " said Jude, literally tottering with cold and lassitude.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

In that case her tottering faith would have become firm again.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Two)

My faith in all the truths that have supported me is tottering'.

Source: Magician

A girl not yet twenty stood there, white-faced and tottering.

Source: Selected Works of O. Henry

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