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

Sun, moon, grizzly, black, spectacled, sloth: Bears all over the world can stand, shuffle, totter and walk on two legs, though they usually prefer four.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

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

The male seemed suddenly to totter, perhaps from the weight of its feathers or from the weight of rejection.

From "Americanah" 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

“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

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

Nels Gudmundsson now tottered to his feet in order to cross-examine Sterling Whitman.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

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

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

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

He regularly held Saturday morning sessions with experts on the tottering Soviet empire and led the George H.W.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

As Perry continued to sort and choose, the pile of material he thought too dear to part with, even temporarily, assumed a tottering height.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote