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 Stables, Gordon