unsteady

Example Sentences

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Inner-ear problems can also affect balance, and if someone is feeling dizzy or unsteady, they are likely to walk slower.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

So why haven’t these headlines done more to calm an unsteady global oil market?

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

The morning of the disaster, unbeknown to those at the foot of the mountain, the large tip had been made unsteady by a build-up of water.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

For there, in the unsteady light, was Lord Fredrick Ashton himself, tangled in cobwebs that he tried in vain to bat away.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood