totter

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

The rock of the cliff was split and the top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Coaxed and tugged by rangers, a blindfolded giraffe totters into the specialised vehicle that will transport it away from an increasingly hostile environment to a new home in Kenya's eastern Rift Valley.

From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025

The totters would pull out bigger pieces which might get stuck in machinery, he added.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022

At this point, the film totters into a redemptive sentimentality that wouldn’t even play if it were made to seem more earned.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

The lithe Alan Naylor, in drag as the rapacious talent agent Sylvia St. Croix, sets the frothy tone as he totters on high heels and wearing fur.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2016

She totters over to the bed, touches the comb, then pulls it from Charlotte's hair and squeezes it.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Sri Lanka has been gradually easing import restrictions, which were imposed as the country's economy tottered from a financial crisis caused by a severe shortage of dollars.

From Reuters ● Aug. 15, 2023

Lunch arrived soon afterwards with Balderson feasting on figures of 2-2-0-3, while Essex tottered on 34-4.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2022

He knocked once more, and an elderly woman in blue slippers and a long coat tottered out the gate, a floral bonnet over her silver hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

I tottered up a narrow stairwell to the warmth and noise of the third-floor apartment.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022

On my new crutches, I tottered down the hall.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

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 two boys, aged 2 and 4, romped through the labyrinth of La Soledad, under lines of drying laundry, past deliverymen pushing stacked handcarts and carpenters hammering away at tottering structures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2025

The singer’s sweeping eyeliner, tottering heels and disheveled beehive are still instantly recognizable, 13 years after her death.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

The tottering system was vulnerable to the first good push, which came in the form of a century-long dry spell that hit Yucatan between about 800 and 900 a.d.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann