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

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

I seemed to totter on the edge of a great dark hole.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

“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

"As the over-the-hill glamourpuss in Andrew Lloyd Webber's groundbreaking musical, she totters on like a feline Miss Havisham, delivering his best song, Memory, with an internalised regret," he wrote.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2014

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

The first nine weeks of this season tottered into parity.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022

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

We tottered before an ancient-looking building, its windows dark.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Television and social media were filled with scenes of toppled and damaged buildings, including entire apartment blocks that appeared to be tottering as desperate residents camped out on the streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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

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

“Smooth,” said Ron approvingly as the waiters popped up on all sides, some bearing silver trays of pumpkin juice, butterbeer, and firewhisky, others tottering piles of tarts and sandwiches.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling