totter

She watches a humanoid robot totter around a demonstration kitchen until it trips on a chair and clatters to the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Mr Mohamed, from Poole, was working as a "totter", sorting waste by hand at the yard in Mannings Heath Road, the court heard.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022

Still, over the years, he’s occasionally been accused by critics of making his models — particularly the women — suffer, binding their arms to their sides or having them totter down runways in inhumane shoes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

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

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

Ultimately it totters too far to one side, but there is still the primal nail-biting need to know what-the-hell-is-going-on.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2020

“If the state totters, those with nasty memories of life under the Taliban will fight on.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2019

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

In front of him totters a German officer in field dress.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Afterward, she tottered on his arm, rising faintly over his line of vision, in a pair of suede three-inch leopard-print pumps.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

It is also another blow to the tottering system of international law.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

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

In one of the tottering piles in my office, I found the logs from the private detectives hired by Whitehorn’s estate after his death.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann