totter
verb (used without object)
to walk or go with faltering, unsteady steps.
have tottered
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present perfectof totter.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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It is the Great Film Desert across which, since the beginning of cinema, thirsty actors have tottered carrying beautiful women.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Her empire would have tottered if she had done such a thing as that," observed Patty, "but as it tottered anyway, she might as well have sat as she pleased."
From Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells
Thrones have tottered to their fall; but there was then that evolving itself of which succeeding ages have witnessed but the more full development.
From About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
It was not long since I was like one of these beardless aspirants; when my boy shall have obtained the place I now hold, I shall have tottered into a grey-headed, wrinkled old man.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Often, no doubt, I have tottered, but I have not fallen; the most potent cause of my wrong-doing lay in the grandeur of the seductions that encompassed me.
From The Lily of the Valley by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
