totter
verb (used without object)
to walk or go with faltering, unsteady steps.
Example Sentences
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And clustered close drew the three comrades, with Death at their elbows, and as the oldest rose totteringly he spoke in a voice audible only for a few feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Don't put out your pipe," she said to old Grandfather Doby, rising totteringly respectful from his chimney-side chair.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Well, brother, you’re still alive an’ kickin’,” he called to me, as I was totteringly dragged from my cell into the corridor of dungeons.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
At length, seemingly in obedience to all this clamor, the solar image left the basket and slowly, falteringly, totteringly, ascended the plank to within a few inches of the top.
From The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 by Washington Matthews
She pushed Saggia to one side and totteringly followed Hero.
From Nuova or The New Bee by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
