How To Use Stagger In A Sentence

The book's 85 colour lithographic plates look staggeringly fresh and bold.
A man staggers out of the shed through a side door, clutching his ribs with his left hand, a gun in his right. CHAMELEON
A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.
The view of snow-covered mountains through the picture windows is staggering. Times, Sunday Times
Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car.

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Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
Just as the girl shut the door Yuki pulled herself upright and staggered to the bed.
Focusing his firelance on the leading black cat of the two that trail, he discharges the entire lance before the cat staggers and tumbles. The Magi'i Of Cyador
The payments will be staggered, giving priority to child support grants in June, old-age grants and war veterans in July, disability grants and grants-in-aid in August and foster-care grants in September.
Off the main beach is a reef patrolled by a staggering array of fish. Times, Sunday Times
We stagger round with the Platonic idea (from the Symposium) that we can love only one other person.
It enjoys a quiet position near the centre of this pleasant village, just off the A19 Selby Road, little more than a hop, skip and a stagger away from the popular Greyhound pub.
She staggered to a neighbour for help and was taken to hospital and given morphine. Times, Sunday Times
Highly sensitive party documents detailing the list of staggering demands have been leaked to us. The Sun
Perhaps some feline bureaucrat has concluded that the best answer is to let the proposal stagger on and collapse, hoping to kill it with kindness?
His speech is staggered and halting, hers an energetic staccato.
As usual I have made all the unvoiced, internal resolutions to start everything with a clearer mind and also as usual my mind staggers to a halt like a trolley rolling over syrup.
In fact, the proliferation of viruses and the onslaught of spam have left companies and consumers staggering.
He staggered to his feet and wobbled to the back of the bar.
In the distance, staggered lines of other pukkawoods rose, each from a crack riven into the saltpan by the advancing lightning. Asimov's Science Fiction
Andreas turned around and kicked out at Justin, sending him staggering backwards to regain his balance.
The waiter, almost literally staggering under the weight, plumped a huge oval plateful of sizzling ribs in front of Lili.
People were staggering around, dazed. Times, Sunday Times
Since 2008, they have been socked with staggering new bills for bank bailouts and hammered by a Great Recession brought on by the very same banks. Lynn Parramore: Amity Shlaes's Forgotten History: When Unions Go Bust, We All Do
He didn't knock back a pitcher of lemonade before he staggered onto the stage.
The joints between the tabs must continue to be staggered.
They are flamboyant and skilled riders, capable of performing staggering feats of archery and acrobatics on horseback.
What ensued absolutely staggered me. For Love or Money
For instance, I used lots of daylilies which I staggered in a sweeping curve.
It works by staggering the tags that surround your posts.
My hunch is that most middle-class people like me would somehow manage to stagger on. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, they are a staggering triumvirate of imagery crafters.
But he said: ‘People have now found alternative routes and staggered their journeys.’
Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.
As the night draws to a close and the remaining few are left in the town's pubs, landlords and landladies call time at 11 before you stagger into the Indian-Chinese-Italian-Mexican-or Kebab shop takeaway and you're in the midnight hour.
The cheeseboard was sound enough and there were enough little unbidden watermelon vodka shooters and pots of labneh with breadsticks to send me out into the night quite staggering with fullness, even without pudding.
At this point, I have a staggering amount of data, and it's been invaluable in dispelling myth, particularly in assisting me to name and claim classism and racism as it permeates my family culture. Archive 2009-08-01
A few unexpected moves push these time-honored forms into the modern world: extreme angles to the roof pitches, compressed fenestration with staggered window sizes, and square dormers.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez called off drastic energy rationing in Caracas after a chaotic first day of staggered blackouts angered his supporters, but the measures will continue across the country. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Highly sensitive party documents detailing the list of staggering demands have been leaked to us. The Sun
They sometimes afflicted people with fits or staggers or palsies for transgressions such as emptying a bucket of foul water in the wrong place. Wildfire
On the other hand, you juxtapose that with a much darker and more critical view of superheroes--basically by offering up a fairly standard "deconstructive" depiction of Batman as a borderline-fascist he actually uses the phrase "final solution", borderline-sociopathic vigilante who finally staggers over those borderlines. Archive 2009-04-12
The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him.
It seems staggeringly crass and inappropriate, but I understand his need to record this terrible scene.
These images, part of a larger exhibition of photos taken from 2001-2002, begin to put a face on their staggeringly large numbers and aim to make their situation less deniable and more real.
In the street, Miguel will spot some foxy muchacho, and ayayay! - he trembles, he staggers, he has to cling to my arm, or Rosario's.
My parents' obvious aging, brought sharply before me instead of gradually as the last few years had passed, when I'd seen them every day, was a staggering shock.
‘It struck me like a physical blow, a bullet to the heart, staggering me back, stunned,’ recalls Campbell.
She groaned and stood up, staggering a bit as sleep continued to fog her brain.
He staggers back, releasing my left wrist. Times, Sunday Times
She was holding Leo's hand, and was leaning against him, so as he walked, he did it with a stagger.
The nightclub Broadway is also right next door, so you will not have far to stagger after an evening out on the town.
I staggered across the tiles in ungraceful fashion, handbag swinging as I swore.
He also welcomed plans to stagger parking bays along the one-way road to create chicanes to slow vehicles.
I barely recognized the bedraggled figure who staggered in from the storm.
And how many men staggered out of Fatal Attraction swearing they'd never dare flirt with a woman again?
At a slightly uneven stagger the coffin set off down the aisle.
-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within? Catherine: a Story
Next it was a stagger up Digbeth High Street to the Royal George.
The report documents the staggering amount of domestic violence against women.
It's an open-handed slap, but powered clear from the hips, and he absolutely staggers.
She ran like a wounded deer, in a staggering, pain-crazed jink. COMPULSION
When A. came to take in her liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared. Waverley — Volume 1
Unfortunately for him, Alfred had been well trained and Bastide staggered back, clutching a bloody nose.
The shrub layer includes lowbush blueberry, black huckleberry, dangleberry, staggerbush, inkberry and sheep laurel.
Her face turned up to his as he staggered on the uneven surface of the car park. THE ONLY GAME
In the email, Bourne, 60, from Dawlish, Devon, apparently rebukes Withers, 29, for her behaviour during a visit to the family in April, which she describes as "staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace". Mother-in-law's withering email to bride-to-be goes viral
The numbers grow more staggering everyday, making the recovery from Hurricane Charley seem even more daunting.
Staggering home to the tent after nightfall he would have been sure, sooner or later, to fall into a dry shicer and break his neck, or into a wet one and be drowned. Australia Felix
Logan staggered up, jangled by the blast, and grabbed his hammer in numb fingers. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
They will pile the scrap outside their warehouse, half formed prophets who stagger away confusedly, their perfect teeth askew. Prophetstown
I was staggered to hear/on hearing/when I heard of his death.
The sheer volume of fiction produced is staggering.
Early results appear to show staggering progress on inherited conditions such as liver disease and muscular dystrophy. Times, Sunday Times
It maintains the "stagger" and assists in maintaining the angle of incidence. The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
He might have grown up in a raupo whare, but he left a legacy of fine New Plymouth buildings - a staggering 315 in total.
But their apparent inability to work with some charities is staggering. Times, Sunday Times
The sheer number and variety of perennials that she grew was staggering, but in addition there were the flowering trees and shrubs. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
After staggering about under this intense thunderclap of irony, we moved.
I staggered and had to clutch at a chair for support.
And he does this all while staggering about the stage tripping over things in gaily-stockinged feet (yes, I have a soft spot for gawky boys in colorful socks), fussing with the mix, swapping instruments on the fly, and -- in the grand tradition of Bowie and Byrne -- dancing like an utter spaz. The short answer is, go.
The physical and mental stresses can be staggering. Times, Sunday Times
Our daily parade down the Croisette has turned from a saunter to a stagger.
Talking sentimental piffle, he staggers over to Isobel before I had time to react.
After a bit of staggering between bars and buses, we were missing the attention of the local hasslers, and were plotting on better ways of dealing with touts and hustlers.
What they almost all had in common was that they cost a lot of money, made you miserable and resulted in staggeringly insubstantial weight losses that were completely negated by your drinking a glass of water.
They blackjacked us," whispered Kennedy to me as I staggered to my feet. The Poisoned Pen
It has been a staggering collapse with just one win in the last eight games. The Sun
Twenty minutes later, his foot on the head of a very large, very red, and above all very dead dragon while the crowd cheered and threw confetti, Edwin spied a familiar figure staggering towards him in battered armour. Squired-Up
Nay what are all errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms, if we will interpret them kindly, but the blinkard dazzlements and staggerings to and fro of a man sent on an errand he is too weak for, by a path he cannot yet find? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
She spied a lone figure staggering aimlessly across a recently ploughed field just north of the farmhouse.
a disorder known as "the staggers," of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
Normally a staggering $910 per double per night, rates drop to $585 per night and include meals, plus the use of catamarans, sailboards, snorkeling gear, and sea kayaks.
He has everything right - the stagger of the man walking, the drape of the man sitting, the accusatory point of the man's finger.
There was a healthy crowd who stayed to watch the event which was put on partly to stagger the crush of racegoers leaving the course after the last race.
At twilight, as I rode out through the great gate of the capital, I saw the jaded horse fall and the exhausted rider stagger in on foot; and I little dreamed that that man carried my destiny with him into Keijo. Chapter 15
On her last stagger to the loos, she'd tied her hair up in a topknot, which Joan was now looking at with contempt. JUST BETWEEN US
The facade is divided into a set of nine slightly staggered panels, framed in relief and decorated in a checkerboard missing-brick pattern.
Mercutio, fatally stabbed, staggers round the stage in his death throes.
It's not possible to read Paul's New Testament writings and remain unmoved by his open heart, intellectual prowess and staggering bravery. John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
Smaller units can also be staggered in a similar fashion, or fanned out in arcs if a curved shape works particularly well in the garden. Times, Sunday Times
I staggered to my feet only to fall down again because of a strong wave.
The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it. Archive 2009-06-01
His collection includes emeralds and spinels of a staggering size (some of them are nearly 300 carats).
Not unless you want to stagger around all summer in stilty shoes, which tends not to look fabulous or relaxed. Times, Sunday Times
The idea that they can even say those words without burning up at the shame of their own dishonour and double standards staggers me.
Since I've moved house, my local is now the Drayton Court, just a short stagger from BNI Towers.
She thrust her hand into the staggeringly cold water.
The idea behind this pendant lamp, which comes flat-packed and ready to customize, is simple: leaf-like petals surround a central fixture and can be moved and arranged to suit individual tastes and lighting strategies — fan the petals out completely for maximum illumination, or stagger for more shade. Jessica Mischner | Inhabitat
The staggering on too-high heels, the silly hats, the little black dresses covered in tinsel and the semi-drunken jokes about handcuffs. It’s That Time Of Year Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
They staggered up the road and when clear of the town they both needed to relieve themselves and stood in the middle of the road urinating into the dust.
Kanyanta could have knocked out his opponent but Hara stood his ground even after being decked by hard blows to the head that only staggered him.
Thereupon the good dyer staggered by the paternal majesty of cuckoldom, and perhaps also by the fire of his wife's eyes, let the sword fall upon the foot of the hunchback, who had followed him, and thus killed him. Droll Stories — Volume 1
The contrast between this astonishing piece of political theatre, televised around the planet, and another event a couple of days later, is so staggering, it is bathetic to mention them in the same column.
Once that clears up, Vainio turns his prey down a dark passage, chloroforming them again until all you can hear is their drugged, staggering heartbeats and the swaying neon of the red-light district.
He had, they insisted, slightly misquoted a staggering number of lines.
There was no sign of the staggering lack of self-belief displayed in their previous match. Times, Sunday Times
He'd be staggering and falling over and sometimes there was a gang of kids following and poking fun and laughing.
He might have obtained better results simply by taking the differences in the lanes' staggered starting marks for an appropriate track event.
The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering. Times, Sunday Times
Germany, like several other European nations, staggers the start of its school holidays in different areas.
Both films employ innovative computer-generated graphics that required staggering outlays in hardware.
Plucking up his sleeve, the beldame recognized the mole; and, staggering back in her chair, shrieked: Between the Acts
Sirka staggered around, trying to make her way out of the hallway and into the family room, when she suddenly lost her footing.
Wherever I go, I am awed by the diversity of our fellow creatures and their staggering variety of color, design, adaption and behavior.
We have seen how staggeringly impressive it is as an accurate data storage device.
Residents were staggered when yellow lines were painted in a village near York - and then removed less than 48 hours later.
The financial impact on the town was staggering.
Trained by Festival shrewdie Edward O'Grady, he's son of Montjeu who ran on the Flat in France after fetching a staggering 230,000 euros as a yearling. Undefined
Then, when they're awake they stagger around all dopey with heavy eyes.
He sent Chavasse staggering down the corridor and followed three feet behind, the Mauser ready for action. THE KEYS OF HELL
He raised his voice as he walked down the corridor with a groggy, staggering gait.
Decrepit old Shepherd Hall is being renovated at staggering expense.
The 36-year-old then got out and staggered around but refused to take a breath test. The Sun
He grunted and staggered back before falling to the ground, dead.
If so much new information can be gathered from two short field seasons of general collecting and observation on one Solomon island, the amount to be learned across the two archipelagos must be staggering.
O'Grady opened the door and threw Carl bodily out into the night where he staggered a few paces before falling headfirst into a patch of mud.
Players get paid staggering amounts of money. Times, Sunday Times
All three companies argue that staggered board elections protect shareholders in a takeover attempt.
There was a stagger rather than a swagger about Johnson in recent years.
And no less surprising, the Broncos have the staggers and will struggle to get beyond the semi finals next weekend.
It is proper for both parties to talk via their host about staggering their attendance times, and far preferable to one being invited and not the other. Times, Sunday Times
Karen staggered along under the weight of her backpack.
Yes! gentlemen, "addressing the attentive cowboys," I can cure anything that touches the ground -- biped, quadruped, or centipede -- glanders, botts, greased hoofs, heaves, blind staggers, it makes no odds. Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery
Ryu's world exploded into stars as the blow connected with the side of his head, staggering him.
First by the fella who spotted her—he was staggering home from a party half scuttered, having a piss through the railings when he saw her. The Priest
He was staggering and had to lean on the bar.
Grass staggers is brought about by a diet that is too high in protein, a condition found in rapidly growing pasture, especially on ground that has been heavily dressed with fertilizer.
Once sure-footed, their step is now a confused, uncertain stagger, like a drunk slaloming from house to house in searching for his own front door.
Stars, however, come in a staggering range of luminosities, spanning ten orders of magnitude ten powers of ten.
Profits have shot up by a staggering 25 %.
During the nail biting night, he was inundated with a staggering 140 text messages from well wishers.
He pulled himself off the fence and staggered about. The Sun
Each hive was allowed at least 30 min to cool between trials, and the ‘hot’ section was staggered between trials to ensure against an undetected preference for a given hive location.
They fall into taxis or stagger happily on down to the Nitelink bus and sing all the way home.
Bearing these staggering figures in mind, it's not surprising one shopping centre in the borough has decided to take a stand and address its own waste issues.
Off the main beach is a reef patrolled by a staggering array of fish. Times, Sunday Times
Staggering home under the appalled stares of passers-by, a bloodied Mehmet walks a gauntlet of seething furnaces, grinding pistons and an incessant, infernal hammering.
What staggered us was the sheer size of her salary.
Robby walked out onto his lawn with just a trace of a stagger and jumped into his brilliantly, subtle performance.
For him to claim that two morally equivalent sides were fighting it out is staggering: he is equidistant between a poisoner and the medical crew waving an antidote.
The number of people getting paid is staggering. The Sun
Oh!" said Porson, too staggered to continue the conversation. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
States will absorb the staggering cost of not only constructing additional prisons to accommodate increasing numbers of prisoners who will never be released but also warehousing them into old age.
There was a staggering number of helmet-to-helmet hits, particularly in the 1 p.m. games, and one of the scariest was the collision between DeSean Jackson of the Eagles and Dunta Robinson of the Falcons. NFL's former director of officiating calls for action after day of helmet-to-helmet hits
Many would probably prefer to be only a short walk from the office in the morning and a drunken stagger back from the bars at night.
The 36-year-old then got out and staggered around but refused to take a breath test. The Sun
He staggered drunkenly toward the door.
They stagger in, are punched upright, and indoors now in harsh electric light blear eyes inspect them. COUP D'ETAT
Now, as the economy staggers and falters, day-to-day survival presses more harshly, which makes social commitment still tougher.
Definitely flagging now, Penny and I stagger on to the Park Hyatt Hotel where we have promised ourselves a glass or two of wine to celebrate our mammoth and epic journey.
One of my biggest pet peeves is anti-takeover measures like poison pills and staggered boards that destroy shareholder value. The Value Of Investing In Virtue And Vice
Arguing over such things and what they mean is great fun, so it's disappointing, part-way into "Mind Over Money," to see the show staggering toward a pit of ancient dung about an alleged struggle between economists who believe in efficient markets and study price signals, and behaviorists who study examples of seemingly nonrational economic behavior, such as "present bias. Too Crazed to Trade?
That his staggering blunder about his tax debts happened while he was still in opposition will save him. The Sun
No doubt about it, he swayed and staggered when he walked.
He walked with a stoop and a rolling gait, the once upright take-on-the-world stance of the magnificent athlete now reduced to a shambling stagger.
The sheer breadth of these studies can stagger the imagination, ranging across continents for specific forces of ecological and historical change.
Meanwhile the staggeringly complex regular polygon that has 65,537 sides is constructable, and in fact has been constructed. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
Fast-paced action adventure with you at the centre of some staggering cinematic effects.
We were staggered that they were issued with sleeping bags and bleepers for nights so they could kip and leave just one in the room who could activate the bleeper in the highly unlikely event that more than one call came in at once!!! Theodore Dalrymple – Second Opinion « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The financial impact on the town was staggering.
His story of survival was staggering, his courage immense. Times, Sunday Times
A trailer loaded with canoes sits behind the Red Cross building, waiting to be deployed, and glassy-eyed relief workers stagger onto our hotel's elevators, ready to collapse.
He staggered across the wide path that bordered the pond and plunged into the water.
Takeoff finally began around 3: 00 P.M. with the towplanes and tethered gliders staggered on either side of the runway as far as you could see.
To demonstrate the impact of high population growth on the environment, there is no better microcosm than California, which is staggering to accommodate its onrush of new residents.
They drank of the wineskins and staggered down the main street of the town weaving toward the disciplined line of approaching soldiers.
The lamb staggered to its feet and took its first suck of milk.
-- The stagger is the distance the top surface is in advance of the bottom surface when the aeroplane is in flying position. The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
He got a sack out of the buggy , shouldered it, and staggered with it through the cottage yard, and knocked at the door.
Some comely instinct guided it thitherwards, sometimes staggering low over the water, sometimes flitting splendidly high until distance and the glowing sky absorbed it. My Tropic Isle
One of the trolls said something about “activist judges” and I got dizzy from the staggering display of stupidity so close to their beloved ACTIVIST SUPREME COURT deciding corporations have more rights than citizens. Think Progress » DeMint Blocks A Wise Lesbian Latina From Serving On The D.C. Superior Court
His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground. CHAPTER XIX
And he kind of botches his attempt and he staggers into his old house, which he figures is abandoned, and he opens his door and he hears his mother calling him from upstairs. CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2006
The plane staggered and started to climb, slowly, sluggishly, wobbling terrifyingly.
The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish.
It has been a staggering collapse with just one win in the last eight games. The Sun
Schumacher staggered to the corner of the schoolhouse around which Katherine had disappeared. WALL GAMES

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