Example Sentences

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The deal comes at a time of deep unsteadiness for the cable industry, as customers are increasingly cutting the cord and moving to streaming video services.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

He covers for Jake’s trouble lifting heavy objects and general unsteadiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

It was a year of mass death, fear, trauma, isolation, grief, institutional collapse, uncertainty, desperation—and it created something of an overall unsteadiness, a loss of sense of time and purpose and reality.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2024

Signs of heat stroke include nausea, incoherence, weakness, cramps, flushed appearance and unsteadiness, according to a 2022 report by the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023

“How ashamed,” he went on, in spite of the unsteadiness of his voice, “how really . . .” The Savage cut him short and, taking his hand, affectionately pressed it.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley