tottering

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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

Rimal, the chubby-cheeked baby, recently began tottering around on her own two feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023

It was a small room, crowded with tottering piles of papers and books, and the whiteboards on the walls were covered in figures and equations.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman