How To Use Wobble In A Sentence

Throwing himself into one of the office's numerous squashy chairs, Irvine admits to a last - minute attack of the collywobbles.
The oil drum where the male monkey had been sitting began to wobble from side to side and finally toppled right over.
It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
It's a program called the Anglo-Australian Planet Search Program, and what you're looking for is stars whose motion encompasses a wobble.
The pilot gets into a small bit of leftover wake turbulence, the rental aircraft wobbles just before touchdown and a wingtip catches the runway.

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Today Science tells us the speed of light is decaying, the magnetic field is collapsing, the earth is slowly beginning to wobble on its axis, the protective ozone layer is thinning.
These normally nuanced characters briefly became vessels for issue-based polemic rather than wry, subtle dialogue - and even to unequivocal admirers, this is a serious wobble.
He staggered to his feet and wobbled to the back of the bar.
Then it kind of wobbled a little back, but they have also changed slightly the forecast track, which is something that we were kind of thinking that would happen. CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2005
I prefer the term wobble, as in the Southern Wobble, the Pacific Decadal Wobble, etc., as that better fits the actual behavior. RealClimate
They should have a slight wobble when shaken. Times, Sunday Times
Georgia, which placed third last year, had a few wobbles on balance beam in the final rotation but held on to second place.
I gave the poles a slight wobble and whole tent collapsed.
Throwing himself into one of the office's numerous squashy chairs, Irvine admits to a last - minute attack of the collywobbles.
There was a most disconcerting wobble to the steering.
So I can fully understand how a thrown football with a toonie glued to it could go into a wobble like a Tire out of balance that shakes at high speeds . Is There Anything That Global Warming Can’t Do? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
He and Read provide real ballast to a line-up that has wobbled a bit in the past. Times, Sunday Times
It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust, but also flagrantly illegal.
On the other hand, it is also possible that joint load may add variable forces across the elbow joint articulation thus, increasing joint wobble, thereby increasing measured length changes.
His voice wobbled with restrained emotion
The rebound from the July wobbles owed something to the sterling safety valve. Times, Sunday Times
A great way to boost your sense of balance for jumping is with a wobble board (see kit bag). Times, Sunday Times
The best known statesmen of both parties had "wobbled" upon the question. History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)
When you feel gross you don't want anyone touching bits of you that wobble. The Sun
The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity, momentarily wobbled off-key, then recovered.
Pulling herself painfully up, she wobbled shakily on the cobbles, catching the icy metal of the lamp-post next to her to steady herself.
He and Read provide real ballast to a line-up that has wobbled a bit in the past. Times, Sunday Times
Henman has no similar device, and his wobbles, of which there were some, brought a collective intake of breath from the 14,000 spectators on Centre Court.
Her smile was nervous and her voice wobbled a little, but the information she gave made up for any weakness in presentation.
David HartThe Vows Moment Wobbles the SonnetI've walked the valley path in sticky rainto see the person I met in a caff by luck lost to the world out on a cloddy trackfull of ache, done-for-almost, in foul pain –Enough, I love you. Poems for a wedding
You want there to be a slight wobble in the middle. Times, Sunday Times
Relieved, we wobbled up the stairs to the restaurant.
If your child is blusterous collywobbles or headache, but do not have any explicit symptoms again, so he may be mental insecurity.
With a slight wobble in his voice, he said his prostate cancer had spread to other parts of his body.
Yesterday's numbers were fair but may not satisfy the doubters who fear that the wobble has further to go. Times, Sunday Times
Rubenstein's voice wobbles and her dark eyes well up.
But after Rooney disappears to check on the day's shoot, Kidd reveals that the second run will be raunchier than the first, possibly prompting more network collywobbles.
However, he lost his momentum during the flip, and his carefully executed spin turned into a wobble, sending him crashing into the floor below.
I nod in affirmation, holding my breath, expecting the world to wobble off of its axis for a second because of the profoundness of what I have just admitted.
That became the wobble board. Times, Sunday Times
It's cheering to find that Cole & Son, maker of wallpaper and paint since 1873, is not only back in business after a serious wobble in the late 1990s but is working flat out to meet demand.
The price might wobble about a bit, but they should be able to. Times, Sunday Times
I'd stopped opening statements ages before because they made my hand shake and my tummy wobble.
Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble.
He's astonished by the way dancers on point don't wobble.
Tables always wobble initially - it's just the wood settling. Times, Sunday Times
One of the children, aged about six kept making a noise. It was an extremely high pitched tone with pronounced wobble, loud and sustained, intermittently for an hour or so.
All of which statistics are likely to send the usual collywobbles up the council's collective spine - even though The Valley used to be the biggest club ground in the country, and comfortably held crowds of up to 70,000.
Check that it's got a Scart socket and that said Scart socket is RGB-capable or your picture will be wobble a tiny bit.
I wore black fishnet stockings and stilettos that wobbled underneath my feet as I stepped.
Leaning into a 90 mph wind, a graph charts every movement, every wobble, in a trajectory that resembles the Alps.
The wood is full of pinholes, and the wing nuts are always loose, a tightener crank busted off so I use a C-clamp, and it wobbles. Archive 2010-03-01
His dazzling box of tricks includes orthodox swing, reverse swing, inswing, outswing, wobble balls, bouncers, aggression and a big heart. The Sun
I didn't even wobble in my heels.
It was obvious that she was trying to take her mind off of things; her voice was low as not to betray the wobble that they all heard anyways.
A new fun thing at this place was that the table wobbled and the food was terrible. Times, Sunday Times
There was the inevitable wobble by a side that has lost three successive semi-finals in the intervening period. Times, Sunday Times
Exquisite gravadlax rolled around a cylinder of potato salad was a highlight, as was a fat slab of foie gras, which glistened dark gold from the pan but wobbled with a lovely rareness.
What actually happened is that the giant bag wobbled about in the gentle breeze until it lightly grazed a tree. Times, Sunday Times
Jinx was startled to note that the horizon of the infinite plane wobbled unsteadily for a moment.
Whether the wheels are toed in or out, casters like this are prone to dynamic instability (wheel wobble) at higher speeds unless additional damping is provided.
Tracking the progress of the Merced-Itanium will cause many an attack of the collywobbles for commentators.
It is the bounden duty of Australia A teams above all else to cut the Poms down to size before the big stuff starts, and just for a while mid-innings today, when England got the wobbles and lost a trio of wickets for 13 runs while still a hundred or so behind the hosts, it looked as if they might manage it once more. The Ashes 2010: Sublime Ian Bell dances to a century for England
In spring the jet stream loses much of its punch and as it weakens and wobbles it drags far fewer westerly winds off the Atlantic. Times, Sunday Times
The script does wobble - we lurch from naturalism to cinematic surrealism, with apparently little to justify it.
I gave the poles a slight wobble and whole tent collapsed.
The script does wobble - we lurch from naturalism to cinematic surrealism, with apparently little to justify it.
Her stomach cramped sharply, and she wobbled dizzily. Crimson Wind
The old cart wobbled down the street
It is a source of some amusement to my colleagues that I've been singled out like this because, though I'm known as a blurter, my politics wobble between right of center and left of center. The Perils of Punditry
There also appear to be harmonic steering wobbles which occur at speed.
Nonetheless, his concerns were serious enough to warrant a wobble: He understood the need to win the support of the Arab world, he just hadn't realised how little progress had been made.
It was the day the world wobbled on its axis.
I look over at the closet and scan the rows of shoes there, the shoes that hurt my feet, pinch my toes, make me wobble and have to hold on to Tony for balance and support.
We do our best to show the world our best, for fear of what might be the consequence were we to admit we are 'in wobble'. Dr. Cara Barker: How Are You Keeping Fear Alive? 3 Steps You Can Take to Build Self-Confidence
So if you enjoy women's short fiction, or if you're looking for a gift for someone who enjoys it, you might like to wobble along to this link and get the goss on how to purchase this anthology. Friends on the bandwagon!
Here all new buildings are designed to wobble without falling apart, and older buildings are regularly 'retrofitted' with strengthening measures. Times, Sunday Times
A bumpy discursiveness was always his method's mark, even his forte, but here it shows excessive wobble.
I think Vernon kind of wobbled a little bit and the defenseman tried to poke it into him. National Hockey League - Maple Leafs vs. Flames
But don't be surprised if they suffer a wobble or two today. The Sun
The forms are roughly geometric, with edges that wobble slightly - triangles, oblongs, squares and circles as well as the more complicated sections left over in between.
Tables always wobble initially - it's just the wood settling. Times, Sunday Times
He has wavered, wobbled, and wiggled about the war in Iraq since it began.
They wobble on their heels and hike up their bustiers as the guys around them attempt to act cool.
But she has only just started toddling, arms up, legs unbent, back down on her chubby bum at the first sign of wobble. Here Comes the Night
Here the path wobbles above, up on the old railway embankment. Times, Sunday Times
She wobbled back up the stairs and stood quietly in the doorway of her mother's room.
The film is sometimes undeniably clever and its vision of the world is suitably askew, but often the tone wobbles unevenly between straight drama and morbid comedy.
Up to now astronomers have only been able to detect vast gassy planets the size of Jupiter or larger by measuring the way their gravity tugs on their parent stars and makes them ‘wobble’.
She went on to say that despite recent wobbles the road to progress was unstoppable. Times, Sunday Times
In mid-2001, as recession hit, the stock market wobbled.
Astrometry can also detect small wobbles in the motions of stars that may reveal unseen companion stars or large planets.
Milutin M. Milankovich, a Serbian mathematician, developed the idea that the Earth's rotational wobbles and orbital deviations have combined to affect in a cyclic way global climatic changes.
And I have to admit I immediately grew lonesome for lovely Penny, the Helen of our poetry world, and could only think about those lovely nipples of hers during the rest of the beer-sotted evening, how they wobbled when she moved. The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 14
At the Keck Observatory, it is now possible to measure extremely subtle star wobbles, so even smaller planets should soon turn up.
Far more troubling is the fearsome wobble in her voice that she only occasionally brings under control.
To minimize wobble, the rails are preloaded to apply pressure uniformly along the bearing.
Hence the initial wobble in the map of my homeward progress, showing me turning right, not left, out of the White Swan's doors.
With the inertia reel belts used in cars nowadays, it is vital to ensure the belt is pulled very, very tightly around the seat to ensure it stays tight and the seat cannot wobble.
Roped in to crew for an older friend, they fed me cider until I wobbled.
It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust to Indian cricketers, but also flagrantly illegal.
In fact, the earthquake was so powerful that the Earth may have even wobbled on its axis.
Last week, after a month-long bout of the collywobbles, Vodafone accepted a third generation B licence.
He wobbled about on the bike and then steadied himself.
The cooked custard should have a slight wobble. Times, Sunday Times
I could stand on a board and wobble, but that was about it.
I wobbled this way and that before I recovered my center of balance again.
So you ask for more power, which causes the committee to have a bit of a panicky wobble. Times, Sunday Times
The cooked custard should have a slight wobble. Times, Sunday Times
The actual length is unpredictable as the wobble can be affected by many variables, including tectonic movement.
She stood up, wobbled against the couch, and crossed the room to a three-foot high pile of dirties, plucked one of Burt's work socks from the bottom. An Old Story But New For Cora
‘Don't come near me,’ I muttered to myself, fearful of finding myself with a mugful of coffee tipped over me as she wobbled to a table.
Astrometry can also detect small wobbles in the motions of stars that may reveal unseen companion stars or large planets.
I, of course, had a distinct disadvantage because even though I could wibble and wobble the pole he could just as easily jut and jab at me, scoring points.
This was similar to the flame of a big blue slow moving torch, that had a steady slight wind blowing on it, that made the leading edge wobble and warp in a slow fluttering motion, with the changing gun-blue phosphorescence.
Nate wobbled up the stairs and looked into Suzan's bedroom.
Even Wayne Rooney, who like all top players has "a picture in his head" – a three-second flash-forward of leaping possibilities – seems against Barcelona to have a picture only of looming disaster and catastrophic accident, flying around the pitch in a psychic panic looking for smouldering plug sockets, unsnuffed candles, ladders that wobble. Barcelona are just as processed as the premier burger on the menu | Barney Ronay
That bookcase wobbles whenever you put anything on it.
More proof that I have too much free time on my hands: Back Home Again delves into Family Nicknames, and finds a Goose, Wobble, and Spick. Archive 2005-09-01
Schmid thunders down clear in front and Matt looks safe in second, despite a wobble over the "woops". BBC - Ouch
Motorists are in the money as the fears about a worldwide wobble are sending oil prices through the floor. The Sun
In a sheltered cove, the small dive boat we are sitting in wobbles slightly on the olive green water.
In spring the jet stream loses much of its punch and as it weakens and wobbles it drags far fewer westerly winds off the Atlantic. Times, Sunday Times
I dread being one of those rather smug cyclists that wobble triumphantly through the clogged traffic. Times, Sunday Times
I have found that the K.O. wobbler with a pink or orange stripe in nickel finish is the ticket for casting off the pier or into the foot of water falls. Favorite Lures of the Trout Guides
They brought alumin pipes and the first time they took a swing at one of my screens and intercepted the shieldfield I've got running over them they both lit up like a pair of mollywobbles. The Man Who Used the Universe
I narrowly missed a cyclist who wobbled into my path.
It basically notes a wobble in a star caused by the gravity of the orbiting planet.
You walked in there, you thumped a desk and they wobbled.
Like a top, once its even spin turns into a reckless wobble, these things can be very, very hard to right once they fly out of control.
Should they take the recent wobbles as a warning sign and cash in their chips? Times, Sunday Times
He had a little wobble in his third round but drained some tremendous putts to keep his momentum going.
Be careful,please!The ladder wobbles when you stand on it.
We might look for a tiny wobble in the position of a star.
Dilys wobbled towards the dining room carrying a loaded cake stand and a packet of doilies. TICKLED PINK
Just like a small wobble in the system shouldn't make that much of a difference.
I wasn't sure, but I think I heard his voice wobble a bit.
Are the latest wobbles in markets, therefore, an overreaction or a sensible response to genuine change?
The little animal then staggered, wobbled and limped around for a few seconds before turning for the last time to his rescuers and wandering off back into nature.
Any initial collywobbles I might have had about stepping into a room full of strangers were immediately dispelled when the very first person I clapped eyes on turned out to be someone I already knew: David.
But don't be surprised if they suffer a wobble or two today. The Sun
I swear I saw him taking a sneaky blast from a small bottle of something warming when he thought no-one was watching, and he had a distinct wobble to his gait.
Should they take the recent wobbles as a warning sign and cash in their chips? Times, Sunday Times
Stubbornly she thrust herself upwards into a standing position and wobbled there uncertainly as her body protested.
She then stood, up, wobbled dangerously and crashed back down into the sand.
With 45 ballerinas on the stage, even the wobbles and occasional lapses in synchronicity cannot detract from the spectacle.
Now there is barely a hint of scuttle shake, and the odd shimmy and wobble you do still sense is no worse than in many saloons.
So we might surmise that a larger wobble should have a proportionally greater effect on the Earth's shape.
Panna cotta is a scalded, flavoured cream, set to a perfect wobble, turned out on to a plate.
He and Read provide real ballast to a line-up that has wobbled a bit in the past. Times, Sunday Times
Mayberry's town drunk Otis Campbell weaved and wobbled his way into television history.
One tester claimed the rod 'wobbled' too much but 'felt very light,' while another thought it felt 'bulky.' Shakespeare Ugly Stik
United have been the more robust team this season, the one who have marched with a purposeful stride, the side you would least expect to wobble. Times, Sunday Times
That bookcase wobbles whenever you put anything on it.
More sensitive than any others in the world, they are able to measure effects never before measured, such as the rotation accompanying the waves from earthquakes and small wobbles in the Earth's rotation axis.
It should have a slight wobble in the centre. Times, Sunday Times
And with a voice that can do what his can, a person can afford a little wobble or two here and there -- he's still outsinging the hell out of the rest of the competition. Adam Lambert sings "The Tracks of My Tears."
United have been the more robust team this season, the one who have marched with a purposeful stride, the side you would least expect to wobble. Times, Sunday Times
I managed to tread on another rock, which made me wobble a bit, Danielle quickly grabbling me to stop me plummeting over the side to my death.
United have been the more robust team this season, the one who have marched with a purposeful stride, the side you would least expect to wobble. Times, Sunday Times
She raised her hand to hit then and suddenly stopped, a strange expression blooming on her face as she grabbed her chest, wobbled, and collapsed with a colossal thud, shaking the room, rattling the crystal decanter on the credenza. Cats Do It Doggie Style
The huge walrus made another grunt and then wobbled itself away from us and across the few feet of exposed rocks and slipped into the water.
The beauty of this design is that it allows you to control the point, without any wobble or whippiness.
We were performing one afternoon when a disheveled stewbum cowboy wobbled by the stage.
David raised his eyebrows, and his skull ring wobbled precariously.
His hands were still wrapped around the bars, but he dropped to his knees, his voice wobbled as he struggled to control himself.
The animal, which must have weighed about ten pounds, wobbled dizzily back to the bush.
It should still have a slight wobble. Times, Sunday Times
He was rather plump and his stomach wobbled when he laughed.
They wobbled a little as she bounced on her steps, then rested with a quick jiggle as she stopped.
The price might wobble about a bit, but they should be able to. Times, Sunday Times
Listening to him, we all understand that radio was his destiny, but the very first time he went on air his voice did wobble.
Some horses had already made it down to the start and there were reports that others had "wobbled" on entering the paddock. WalesOnline - Home
Don't wobble the desk when I'm writing.
The pilot gets into a small bit of leftover wake turbulence, the rental aircraft wobbles just before touchdown and a wingtip catches the runway.
On balance beam, Neijssen fell on a flip-flop, full; and van Leeuwen missed her layout mount and had other wobbles.
To challenge yourself, do the balance poses on a plush carpet or on a wobble board.
I have a good pair of skates, but no matter how tightly I lace them, my ankles wobble.
In truth, it was another wobble with his three wood which had darkened Woosnam's mood.
It should have a slight wobble in the centre. Times, Sunday Times
You run alongside and you hold on to the handlebars, then you let go and they wobble and you're still running beside them. Times, Sunday Times
Astrometry can also detect small wobbles in the motions of stars that may reveal unseen companion stars or large planets.
In the case of the large uranium nucleus it could even wobble into a dumb-bell shape, from which it might occasionally split into two distinct smaller nuclei of slightly unequal size.
In addition to the precession and nutation of the Earth's rotational axis, the Earth itself undergoes a wobble such that the crust wanders about the rotational axis with a combination of two periods and amplitudes.
There has been an explosion in the number of astronomers scanning the skies for the telltale wobble of distant worlds.
There, Sethi was helping patients wobble down the corridor on their crutches, and I was teaching lepers to make handicrafts.
Snapping drum, twinkling stars, woozy guitar, and woozier vocals wobble their way towards a yawning great black hole at the worst time. Nothing But Green Lights
The flimsy walls wobble in the faint summer breeze. Times, Sunday Times
As the currency, the riel, wobbles against the dollar and businesses temporarily scale back investment, the election campaign is shaping up to be dirtier than, if not as bloody as, previous years.
The pile of bricks wobbled and fell.
How come Leopold provides exercises for practising what we today call vibrato, several years before Wolfgang was born, and gives ample indication that the fiddlers around him were using FAR TOO MUCH WOBBLE HABITUALLY, and conductors still come along bright eyed and bushy tailed telling orchestras to use NONE? Archive 2005-03-01
She went on to say that despite recent wobbles the road to progress was unstoppable. Times, Sunday Times
When you feel gross you don't want anyone touching bits of you that wobble. The Sun
I dread being one of those rather smug cyclists that wobble triumphantly through the clogged traffic. Times, Sunday Times
What actually happened is that the giant bag wobbled about in the gentle breeze until it lightly grazed a tree. Times, Sunday Times
One thing is certain: there will be more collywobbles on May 5 than on the previous two election nights put together.
Due to a slight "wobble" in the lunar motion called libration, Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
A new fun thing at this place was that the table wobbled and the food was terrible. Times, Sunday Times
Her voice wobbled with emotion.
She fell three behind after 10 holes before Bob Mucha wobbled to three bogeys and a double bogey over the final six holes.

How To Use Wobble In A Sentence

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