totter

If New York falls, the entire free world may again totter on its foundations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

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

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

If only people would use it every day, he told us, Nigeria would not totter like a Big Man with the spindly legs of a child.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 tiger-skin-clad fellow at the center of “Mad Man” totters close to the ground, grasping the string of a skull-embellished balloon as if the orb will keep him upright — or sane.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

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

From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2019

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

I open my mouth to say something, anything, but then two- year-old William Jr. totters in.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

I wondered if I should apologize to Samir as our weary caravan tottered toward the lights of the lost caravanserai.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Nan stumbles to her feet and takes one tottering step toward the Mask.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir