How To Use Tottering In A Sentence

The building exploits the drama of this interlocked matrix of mass and light as stepped ramps zigzag through the atrium, revealing the sheer concrete wall and the great tottering stack of galleries.
Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council. Tales of Destiny
Its various schools, once strongly entrenched at numerous clan capitals throughout the country, were now tottering on the brink of ruin.
I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man.
So Sri Lanka and a flat deck were a pretty helpful combination and they began to make the first tottering steps. Times, Sunday Times

For a few pesos more, you can get yourself into a 'cama' seat, which is much like something from an old-fashioned aircraft business class complete with food and a stewardess tottering about serving sparkling wine. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Look with what a blushless face of triumph she eyes her poor tottering neighbour opposite, who never appears destined "to suffer a recovery. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
On this basis alone, men fear a woman tottering towards them at the beginning of an evening, already gimlet-eyed with toe pain, and sitting down to eat with old-lady sigh. The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
The priest realized the crucial moment, felt his power tottering, opened his mouth in denunciation, but fled backward before the truculent advance, upraised fist, and flashing eyes, of Mackenzie. The Sun of the Wolf
She loves dressing up in my clothes, tottering around in my heels and playing around with my make-up. The Sun
The distinction between residents and spectators was obvious, we were the ones tottering around the old railroad wearing indecent heels. The Sun
Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle. Mary Barton
After the elegies and hymns and poems, the retired minister rose to speak on tottering legs but with a voice like a vice.
It could all leave the troubled Ice Hockey Superleague tottering on the brink with just five teams left.
Seen tottering around campus in chic suits and a fabulous array of heels. Times, Sunday Times
The building was tottering on the brink of falling in on itself.
The outfit was completed with a pair of tottering heels and a battered carrier bag she swung from her wrist. Times, Sunday Times
So Sri Lanka and a flat deck were a pretty helpful combination and they began to make the first tottering steps. Times, Sunday Times
What on earth was the woman tottering in front of me wearing? Times, Sunday Times
What on earth was the woman tottering in front of me wearing? Times, Sunday Times
The outfit was completed with a pair of tottering heels and a battered carrier bag she swung from her wrist. Times, Sunday Times
But forget tottering about in wedges. Times, Sunday Times
Tottering around with a martini glass, Charlotte Akin is delightfully blowsy as the widowed Queen Margaret -- a woman who relishes her bitterness. Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough
My diligent inspection of every single isolated bay, every last tottering Spanish tower had been observed by both the customs posts and the hashish smuggling gangs with wry detachment.
Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river.
It's experimental, original and always tottering on the brink of disaster. Times, Sunday Times
Then, tottering down to the parlour, with a voice hollow from affright, and a face pale as death, she tremulously articulated, 'where is my sister?'
Those rugs can be a serious pain in the rear when you're tottering around in high heels. The Sun
Just the sort of information you need when sorting through a tottering pile of CDs.
But forget tottering about in wedges. Times, Sunday Times
Those rugs can be a serious pain in the rear when you're tottering around in high heels. The Sun
THE average British woman takes a shoe size six but in 100 years women could be tottering around in size tens. The Sun
It's experimental, original and always tottering on the brink of disaster. Times, Sunday Times
What on earth was the woman tottering in front of me wearing? Times, Sunday Times
A kindly, gray-whiskered old gentleman came tottering and rocking into view, his rosy, wrinkled face beaming benediction on the world as he passed through it -- on the sunshine dappling the undergrowth, on the furry squirrels sitting up on their hind legs to watch him pass, on the stray dickybird that hopped fearlessly in his path, at the young man sitting very rigid there on his bench, at the fair, sweet-faced girl who met his aged eyes with the gentlest of involuntary smiles. The Tracer of Lost Persons
Moniplies (also for sense of 'behoved'): 'Ae auld hirplin deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way, and offer me a pig (earthern pot -- etym. dub.), as he said "just to put my Scotch ointment in;" and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit owre amang his own pigs, and damaged a score of them.' The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
In the heels I was tottering about me kitchen making a cup of tea and flicking my hair about. Times, Sunday Times
THE average British woman takes a shoe size six but in 100 years women could be tottering around in size tens. The Sun
The distinction between residents and spectators was obvious, we were the ones tottering around the old railroad wearing indecent heels. The Sun
Hindu rule was already tottering before Muslim penetration.
There was also a tottering confection called the ‘chocolate pistachio pinnacle,’ which seemed dry and a little structurally unsound to me.
Any aspiring writer should be taken to the book depository and shown the tottering stacks that will remain unread and unreviewed, and likely tossed onto the FREE table at the paper.
Mush-on! you Siwashes! he cried, attempting, in a vermicular way, to kick at them, and discovering himself to be tottering on the edge of a declivity. THE MAN WITH THE GASH
His loyalty to the British Government at a time when the National movement was raging and his efforts to shore up a tottering feudal institution were not pure personal predilections or momentary aberrations.
If I take up space here writing all the other theories that were once, supposedly, absolute and the foundation of all knowledge and which are now tottering if not in shambles, I'll say nothing else. [GUEST POST] Sarah A. Hoyt on The Death of Science Fiction: It Ain't Over Till The Fat Droid Sings
He is back at work, tottering around on crutches. The Sun
And just to see everyone's reactions from early this afternoon when everyone had an emotion where they didn't - they were kind of teeter tottering. CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006
Sae ae auld hirpling deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way and offer me a pig, as he said, just to put my Scotch ointment in, and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit ower amang his ain pigs, and damaged a score of them. The Fortunes of Nigel
He is back at work, tottering around on crutches. The Sun
He chuckled at a perky, muff-like dog tottering along as if to remind the Swedes a British dog is what a dog is - unexpendable, functionless, highly ridiculous.
Martin guided her tottering footsteps to a chair, from where she watched him with bulging eyes. Chapter 34
Those rugs can be a serious pain in the rear when you're tottering around in high heels. The Sun
It almost defies belief that no credible new leader has emerged to take advantage of the tottering pharaoh. Times, Sunday Times
The financial success was achieved, however, on the back of a tottering pyramid of contract labour, often unskilled.
The fragile banking industry is tottering, and the enormous level of foreign investment China has enjoyed over the past decade is under threat.
It was sufficiently bizarre to see men and women in their late sixties and seventies tottering around the decks wearing eye patches, death's head do-rags, and plastic hooks while muttering, ‘Avast, matey!’
The pull of these cities have been such that all of them are gradually becoming very densely populated, tottering almost on the brink of a demographic disaster.
Like a Wrist under the wheelwright of a tottering cartel! The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)
It's experimental, original and always tottering on the brink of disaster. Times, Sunday Times
On the eve of his fateful appointment as chancellor, his party was tottering on the brink of disintegration.
Seen tottering around campus in chic suits and a fabulous array of heels. Times, Sunday Times
Wonky - Descriptive of an object tottering parlously in place. The Talk In London - A New Yorker's Report from the Field
Haig, bald and fuming as if steam is about to issue not only from his ears but also from his fingertips, always stands at a 60-degree angle -- or darts here and there at the same tottering slant. David Finkle: First Nighter: Yes, Prime Minister Prime Stage Comedy Meat
They wear a coat sometimes, but it is a marvel of a coat, and was in the last stages of tottering old age before it fell to the blousard. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
Is that tottering mass of concrete really a clothes shop?
It is the usual "gros bourg" of Alsace, with comfortable old houses in espaliered gardens: dull, well-to-do, contented; not in the least the kind of setting demanded by the patriotism which has to be fed on pictures of little girls singing the Marseillaise in Alsatian head-dresses and old men with operatic waistcoats tottering forward to kiss the flag. Fighting France
A very old woman, bent in half and tottering on crippled legs, slowly and painfully pushed her own empty wheelchair.
She loves dressing up in my clothes, tottering around in my heels and playing around with my make-up. The Sun
Women's Bodies, shows what she calls grotesque, vulgar and humiliating creatures, with inflated silicone bodies, oozing out of plunging necklines, tottering on stiletto heels. NPR Topics: News
They think the towering shoes she was tottering around in look like golf clubs and would be totally impractical. The Sun
To take bronze in such a favourable scenario is like tottering at the bottom in any serious competition
In the heels I was tottering about me kitchen making a cup of tea and flicking my hair about. Times, Sunday Times
Passing one very bad spot several yards in length, the heart of one of the party somewhat failed him, so he bestrided the shoulders of a mountaineer; but, when half way, he found himself overhanging a precipice of several hundred feet, with a path of a few inches wide, and the hill man tottering beneath him. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
He disappeared between two tottering wooden buildings and was enclosed by lines of faded laundry.
It waddled towards the pool, looking less like a predator than like an elderly sumo wrestler tottering uncertainly towards a bout with a reigning champion.
Christ Jesus is the way of life, and he is a plain way, a pleasant way, a way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners: am I found in this way, or am I hunting after another track such as priestcraft or metaphysics may promise me? Latest Articles
Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma. The Haunted Bookshop
It is this rebirth and destruction that keeps the balance and saves the universe from tottering over the brink of destruction.
Inside is a room with just four tables, a couple of huge stacks of tottering CDs that threaten to poleaxe the barman, and shelves lined with wine bottles, each one with the price scribbled on the glass in silver magic marker.
The Grand National festival wants to rid itself of the image of sozzled racegoers flashing the flesh and tottering around in high heels. The Sun
Yet it has familiar urban problems - overcrowding, pollution, rotting heritage, tottering transport, suburban sprawl.
Any loss of euro confidence is an unwelcome blow to a global currency ‘system’ already tottering over its unsound dollar foundation.
She spent the duration of the song tottering around on stage in a pair of socks and a floral peach kimono clutching a tiny brolly, right. The Sun
‘The pressing concern of the moment is how to prevent Lebanon from tottering over the brink of the abyss,’ said the English-language Daily Star.
‘I've no time for garnishes or tottering towers,’ he says.
Behind them another three girls, only slightly older, are tottering unsteadily to and from the bar in high-heels, serving beers to the largely local clientele.
In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime.
The Grand National festival wants to rid itself of the image of sozzled racegoers flashing the flesh and tottering around in high heels. The Sun
On the instant he struck, Lute lightly touched his neck with the rein, impelling him to the left; and in that instant, tottering on the insecure footing, with front feet slipping over into the pool beyond, he lifted on his hind legs, with a half turn, sprang to the left, and dropped squarely down to the tiny gravel bed. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
The city tumbles down the steep slopes to the river's edge where it coalesces into a raffish assortment of bars, cafes and restaurants housed in tottering waterfront terraces.
We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession.
She spent the duration of the song tottering around on stage in a pair of socks and a floral peach kimono clutching a tiny brolly, right. The Sun
a tottering empire
Some minutes subsequent to Ripton's signalization of his devotion to the bridal pair, Mrs. Berry's maid entered the room to say that a gentleman was inquiring below after the young gentleman who had departed, and found her mistress with a tottering wineglass in her hand, exhibiting every symptom of unconsoled hysterics. Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete
The baby began to crawl, then managed her first tottering steps.
It resembled a rectangular crown, a small tottering tower of points and bars rising from the camel's back.
Evandale; “he is tottering on the verge between time and eternity, a situation more appalling than the most hideous certainty; yet his is the only cheek unblenched, the only eye that is calm, the only heart that keeps its usual time, the only nerves that are not quivering. Old Mortality
They ran, tottering like elderly little men on walkers, their legs stiff from a life encaged. Knowing Jesse
a tottering skeleton of a horse
In the heels I was tottering about me kitchen making a cup of tea and flicking my hair about. Times, Sunday Times
She loves dressing up in my clothes, tottering around in my heels and playing around with my make-up. The Sun
Seen tottering around campus in chic suits and a fabulous array of heels. Times, Sunday Times
The outfit was completed with a pair of tottering heels and a battered carrier bag she swung from her wrist. Times, Sunday Times
A rotten foundation, and a tottering superstruction, which tumbles down upon the builders 'own heads: for, The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
The teeter-tottering xylophone clomps that used to announce his presence rarely make an appearance without beams of popping noisemakers in tow.
We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession.
The Grand National festival wants to rid itself of the image of sozzled racegoers flashing the flesh and tottering around in high heels. The Sun
` ` The score was kind of teeter-tottering back and forth, but when we needed the big defensive plays, we got them. '' USATODAY.com
They think the towering shoes she was tottering around in look like golf clubs and would be totally impractical. The Sun
But forget tottering about in wedges. Times, Sunday Times
In recent years China has supported the tottering North Korean regime, providing food provisions, oil, strategic supplies and economic aid.
The distinction between residents and spectators was obvious, we were the ones tottering around the old railroad wearing indecent heels. The Sun
They think the towering shoes she was tottering around in look like golf clubs and would be totally impractical. The Sun
The city tumbles down the steep slopes to the river's edge where it coalesces into a raffish assortment of bars, cafes and restaurants housed in tottering waterfront terraces.
What a frenetic picture this conjures of a cartoon chase from aisle to car, with tottering piles of Christmas sustenance, food bought as if for a month-long siege instead of a few days off.
“Or, gracious Lady!” he concluded his orison, “if it is my doom to lose my life like a hunted fox amidst this savage wilderness of tottering crags, restore at least my natural sense of patience and courage, and let not one who has lived like a man, though a sinful one, meet death like a timid hare!” Anne of Geierstein
She spent the duration of the song tottering around on stage in a pair of socks and a floral peach kimono clutching a tiny brolly, right. The Sun
He is back at work, tottering around on crutches. The Sun
So Sri Lanka and a flat deck were a pretty helpful combination and they began to make the first tottering steps. Times, Sunday Times
THE average British woman takes a shoe size six but in 100 years women could be tottering around in size tens. The Sun
Just then, the door flew open and Mara, ashen-faced and tottering came out, closely followed by a radiant Rakael.
They think the towering shoes she was tottering around in look like golf clubs and would be totally impractical. The Sun
But other banking and insurance giants are tottering and may not withstand the continuing turmoil; thousands of smaller fry are on the brink. Times, Sunday Times
Should we imagine a lot of annoyed octogenarians tottering around?
Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river.
Moniplies (also for sense of "behoved"): "Ae auld hirplin deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way, and offer me a pig (earthen pot -- etym. dub.), as he said 'just to put my Scotch ointment in'; and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit owre amang his own pigs, and damaged a score of them. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
The symbols of American capitalism and military imperialism have been struck from the skies, the financial markets have been spun into chaos, and the global economy has been sent tottering to the brink of recession.
They think the towering shoes she was tottering around in look like golf clubs and would be totally impractical. The Sun
When her side was tottering on the brink of defeat it was her powers of persuasion which lifted them that one vital step.

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