Example Sentences

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“Do you have any doubt that states that are tottering on the edge of insolvency and municipalities which may be in even worse position have a strong incentive to grab everything they possibly can?”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2018

In Spain and Italy, interest rates are rising and the governments are tottering toward a possible debt trap.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2011

The votes have been cast, and the judges are tottering, high-heeled, towards the closing night ceremony.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2010

In the last 16 months ten Texas insurance companies have gone broke; others are tottering.

From Time Magazine Archive

A youth of at least highly questionable legitimacy, friendless and penniless; and this, too, in an age when thrones propped up by all that can aid their prestige are tottering to their fall!'

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James