Example Sentences

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Coaxed and tugged by rangers, a blindfolded giraffe totters into the specialised vehicle that will transport it away from an increasingly hostile environment to a new home in Kenya's eastern Rift Valley.

From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025

The tiger-skin-clad fellow at the center of “Mad Man” totters close to the ground, grasping the string of a skull-embellished balloon as if the orb will keep him upright — or sane.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022

Ultimately it totters too far to one side, but there is still the primal nail-biting need to know what-the-hell-is-going-on.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020

I am sitting in a corridor in a London hotel when Cara Delevingne - internationally recognised supermodel, budding actress and ubiquitous tabloid darling - totters past me on vertiginous stiletto heels.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2015

She totters over to the bed, touches the comb, then pulls it from Charlotte's hair and squeezes it.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton