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How to use tottered in a sentence

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Since Dutch elm disease destroyed the elm 30 years ago, the large tortoiseshell butterfly has tottered on the verge of extinction.
The baby tottered to and fro like a blade of grass in the breeze, unevenly buttoned shirt flaps billowing wildly about.
With a heavy thud she slammed into the hat rack, which teetered and tottered before tipping toward her.
Spectators trained digital cameras and cellphone cameras on the structure and waited as huge cracks appeared and the building tottered.
He tottered blindly towards the bar like a camel making for an oasis after a hard day at the office.
All three pillars of the global economy have not tottered simultaneously for a decade.
The maid stood up shakily and tottered down the long dark corridor, towards the nursery.
Making sure no one saw her in such a weakened state, she tottered slowly toward her room.
I tottered home happily yesterday with nine books and will return for a second lot soon.
I tottered about the streets, grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable people.
I tottered out and was passed by a tour bus, a panzer-tank soundalike, belching fumes, its upper deck laden with day trippers.
The cart still tottered as it bumped along the Mourning Valley.
Then, struck by a dump truck, it tottered on its lip for a moment.
It's a strategy adopted by Denise van Outen, who tottered into Walford as duplicitous wheeler-dealering widow Karin.
The ancient man rose warily on stiffened limbs and tottered off into the inner chamber.
Two or three large bottles of beer and a couple of glasses of shochu later, we tottered out with farewells ringing in our ears.
Slowly, painfully, and creaking with age, he rose to his feet and tottered to a so-far unseen part of the cave.
In fact, as the team tottered into town late on Wednesday afternoon, its members didn't look at all like the healthy young athletes who had left Mountain Village on Sunday.
Adding to his already battered pride, he tottered back into the bedroom on unsteady matchstick legs, attempting to regain maybe a little of his lost composure.
Moving faster than she had thought he could, he tottered out of the room, and seconds later, another set of doors burst open and boys began flooding in.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Nini tottered so uncertainly that gori, who had remained motionless and silent throughout, had to steady her with muscular arms.
Sickness diminished the ranks, and emaciate men, haggard and way-worn, tottered painfully along the rugged ways.
Statira tottered against Lemuel, with that round, soft shoulder which had touched him before.
Slowly she tottered to the desk and sank down into her chair by the stenograph.
Thorwald Thorwaldson tottered and went down, for a hurled axe had cleft him between helm and byrnie.
It was talked about, gloated over, glorified, until the reason of many of the citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement.
Each of the combatants threw all his energies into that effort, and the result was, that both tottered on the brink of the precipice.
The inspirer of that revival of the blanco party tottered where he stood.
On she tottered, her apparel hanging round her in red rags, a hundred wounds upon her face and form.
I tottered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair.
Bartolomeo rose, tottered, was forced to lean against a chair and beckon to his wife.
It caught in the window, the tower tottered, leaned forward, fell with a crash, and buried the unhappy lovers in the ruins.
With this whip he cut the shoulders of any that tottered from weariness and pain, and straightened them up.
The maximum of stifling and of agony passed, and, although he was still weak and giddy, he tottered in the direction of the house and of Nalasu.
They slouched and shambled, some even tottered, as from weakness or drink.
She refused to burden her husband with her weight, but often tottered against his side, and recovered herself each time by a feebler effort.
His transgression had destroyed his faith, and then dogma had tottered.
Prince John turned pale, tottered, and caught at the back of an oaken bench to support himself much like to a man who receives an arrow in his bosom.
The steward, nearly strangled, tottered out on a sign from his master.
Two days I lay there, too sick to move, and on the third, reeling and giddy, supporting myself on an extemporized crutch, I tottered on toward San Francisco.
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