How To Use Unsteadily In A Sentence
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The guards, meanwhile, unshackled the young woman who stood unsteadily.
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Its arrangement of forms - a bulky, white rhomboid with curved sides that is balanced unsteadily on a dark rectangle - at first floats freely as a pure, nonrepresentational abstraction a la Ellsworth Kelly.
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At nine o ' clock, the bottle empty, he rose unsteadily from his chair.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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The carriage was moving, bumping unsteadily over rocks and crevices in the path.
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The play is a bit faded now and its dialogue unsteadily scintillating, but it still displays the suavity and sophistication that are Coward's trademarks.
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The ground wavered unsteadily beneath him and he couldn't help but curse as his back erupted in pain.
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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.
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Lexa staggered unsteadily for a moment before falling to one knee, eyes tightly closed in pain, biting her lip to keep from crying out again.
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The bus jolts into slow forward movement, and Grace guides Allen unsteadily back on to his seat.
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At which Father Dooley rose unsteadily in his seat and denounced the philosophy behind the words.
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Even now my friends in the North would be preparing work, talking and arguing and attitudinizing, while I went unsteadily on by myself.
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But then, as the final drops reach the ground and many more perch unsteadily on the now dustless leaves, at that unprotected moment, when you are not quite sure that it has finally ceased raining, and neither is the rain itself, in that very interstice, everything becomes serene.
Excerpt: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
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Sasha saw the hand and froze for a millisecond, then frowned, grabbed at it and rose unsteadily to her feet.
BEHINDLINGS
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Somehow, unsurely and unsteadily, Scotland picked themselves off the turf, and in the middle phase of the game played with enough fire to keep the scoreline within acceptable bounds.
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There was no answer, and after a second he nodded at Ruth and moved unsteadily down the hallway to the bedroom.
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At nine o ' clock, the bottle empty, he rose unsteadily from his chair.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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At nine o ' clock, the bottle empty, he rose unsteadily from his chair.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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The British biologist, a heavyset woman of fifty-eight with eyeglasses and a permanently pinched expression, stood up unsteadily and reached for the device.
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Still a bit woozy, Brian rose unsteadily into a crouch.
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The wave of nausea that usually accompanied a good bruising hit me as I swayed unsteadily on my feet.
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At nine o ' clock, the bottle empty, he rose unsteadily from his chair.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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He gave them a rheumy stare and climbed unsteadily to his feet.
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A plaintive whinny echoed from a damp, narrow cave as we edged unsteadily through the entrance.
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He handed her the rose with all the dignity that such a serious occasion demanded before getting rather unsteadily to his feet.
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Molly looked at Aaron in surprise as he pulled himself up onto his feet, teetering unsteadily for a second.
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Hobbled by an uncooperative sacroiliac, I unsteadily make my way into Washington Square Park for yet another of my continuing unappreciated efforts to let blog readers across the country know what New York literary events are really like -- as if you care.
July 2007
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The lamplight was dim, and it shone rather unsteadily, casting only a weak glow over the ground, but it would have to do.
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She pulled herself unsteadily from the bed to the dresser.
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A little farther away, he caught sight of Yoller, leaning unsteadily against the trunk of a small sycamore.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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he walked unsteadily toward the exit
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She swayed unsteadily as she got up from the bar.
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Ben knelt a bit unsteadily, letting the loose dirt sift through his fingers.
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Very unsteadily, chal lenged, he broke away from restraining hands.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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When she released him from that, he began his lines a little unsteadily, a faint tremor in his voice.
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The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs
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Jinx was startled to note that the horizon of the infinite plane wobbled unsteadily for a moment.
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Before hopping my way unsteadily to the bathroom where I managed to bend myself in ways I never thought possible to get my foot into the basin and under the cold tap!
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The lamplight was dim, and it shone rather unsteadily, casting only a weak glow over the ground, but it would have to do.
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The light wavered unsteadily against the cold stone walls, threatening to diminish.
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A short distance behind him a roly-poly faced man limped unsteadily.
COVER STORY
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Stumbling forward unsteadily, he tripped over a tree root and hit the ground face-first.
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She filled out a consent form and held the clipboard under his hand so Gene could scrawl his initials, which he was able to do unsteadily.
Manifesting Michelangelo
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I heard heavy footsteps on the porch steps and glanced over as the guy almost fell but grabbed the railing, teetering to the left unsteadily with a quiet laugh.
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The strange young man pulled himself unsteadily to his wobbly feet.
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Ana stood with the assistance of the bed, teetering unsteadily, smirk on her face, bottle in hand.
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Theobald Tanqueray Thompkinson, leaning unsteadily forwards, jocular and rotund; rubicund, reckless and implausibly optimistic.
Pigeon Post
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I climbed up and navigated my way over the top of the bales unsteadily.
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There were two reasonable semantic jumps, first from “turning on one side” to “tilting from side to side” (2b), and only from there to “moving quickly and unsteadily/uncontrolledly”.
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