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

I always said I didn’t have a wheel, I had a teeter totter, I had family and work.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2019

Between weeks two and three, they learn to stand, totter around like furry drunks, then walk steadily.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

But then everything came unstuck and Emma wrenched her arms away and Golan began to totter backward, and he stumbled and sat heavily on the rail.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs