totter
verb (used without object)
to walk or go with faltering, unsteady steps.
was tottering
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past progressiveof totter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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What I do know is that the Jenga tower of higher ed was tottering well before this mess, and that my priorities right now are not what happens with SAT scores or the Dean's List.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2020
A lawyer and league official before he was named commissioner in 1984, he stabilized a league that was tottering with its fan base shrinking and many of its teams losing money.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020
The two bankers are also heard laughing and joking at a time when the bank was tottering on the brink of destruction.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2013
That relationship, which ended with Ms. Foss returning to her husband amid signs that Gould’s mental stability was tottering, became being one of the focal points of “Genius Within.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2010
The girl was tottering forward, bent at the waist, one arm draped protectively across the taut drum of her belly, the shape of which was visible through her burqa.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
