totter
verb (used without object)
to walk or go with faltering, unsteady steps.
has tottered
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present perfectof totter (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Though its throne has tottered, dangerously of late, Cotton was again King last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The woman onstage has tottered on stilts fashioned from empty cans of Slim-Fast.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Look at France—how often it has tottered and stumbled in its beauty!
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
They tolerated the immature greatness of Cæsar Borgia, before whom princes and states trembled for years, and he was not the last bold but empty idol of history before whom the world has tottered.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius
Believe me, Miss Fairman, I have not deliberately indulged—I have struggled, fought, and battled, till my brain has tottered.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
