totter
verb (used without object)
to walk or go with faltering, unsteady steps.
is tottering
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present progressiveof totter (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“As we’ve learned from interest rates, zero is a psychological barrier, not a real one. The fund industry is tottering on that barrier right now. Negative fees are coming.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2019
There are no signs, either, that the regime is tottering.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2016
This is not to say that the union is tottering on the brink of collapse.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2014
Some consider O'Donnell's departure a sign that the administration is tottering.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2010
There is in this hamlet of three hundred souls one inn—it is tottering to decay—a pound, a police-station, and a church.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
