totter
Example Sentences
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If New York falls, the entire free world may again totter on its foundations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
Next we made a short descent to totter over tide pools, marveling at neon-green anemones, until a hefty spray of salty water showered us from the spouting horn of Thor’s Well.
From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021
Between weeks two and three, they learn to stand, totter around like furry drunks, then walk steadily.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018
BENSALEM, Pa. — One after another, the gamblers totter along the twisting walkway, bathed in artificial purple light — burdened, at least occasionally, by the instinct that they should have known better.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2017
“But you’d better let me totter along with my little spoonful, or I’ll have to stop altogether.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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