doddering

Example Sentences

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The majority of Carvey's recent "Saturday Night Live" appearances showed off his doddering and bewildered take on Joe Biden.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2024

With characteristic savagery, Wolff portrayed Murdoch as a doddering nonagenarian unable to parse the changes in the cable business and unwilling to accept that American conservatism’s center of gravity had shifted away from him.

From Slate • May 15, 2024

Attention must be paid to the core audience that has stuck it out and been filling these doddering old venues with their seasoned laughter and empathy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022

I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly