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Example sentences for "tottered"

Lexicographically close words:
totis; totius; totos; tots; totter; tottering; totters; tottery; totting; totum
  1. They tottered along, keeping close together and avoiding the others.

  2. There were two men with cow-boy hats, and between them they helped another very thin and very exhausted-looking fellow, who tottered along holding one arm which had been wounded.

  3. She took the arm he offered, and tottered back to the terrace.

  4. Mr. Baker, feeling very weak, tottered here and there, grunting and inflexible, like a man of iron.

  5. Gania seized his head with both hands and tottered to the window; Varia sat down at the other window.

  6. But he had not gone a couple of steps when he tottered and fell to the ground.

  7. His voice had become rough and hoarse; his face was furrowed with wrinkles; his eyes burned under the blue-veined lids, and he tottered like a drunken man.

  8. Albert tottered and fell overpowered in a chair.

  9. The rock, already shaken by the explosion, tottered on its base.

  10. She tottered back to the chair on which she had been sitting and dropped down upon it, holding by it as if that were the only thing in the world secure and steadfast.

  11. He tottered with more than the infirmity of his age, his head dropped upon his breast, and he moaned and murmured inarticulately in low, long-drawn cries.

  12. Once more he tottered towards the window, murmuring in his bitter despondency against the delusive security and hope which had held him idle for the interests of his child during the few days that were past.

  13. My walls still tottered at my feet, but I had none to rear them again, none to inhabit them if they were reared.

  14. He rose suddenly from the couch; his reason seemed for a moment to be shaken as he tottered to the window, crying, 'Food!

  15. At this moment her voice sank to an unintelligible murmur; she tottered where she stood.

  16. His physical powers were now evidently fast failing, but he still tottered painfully onward as they moved to the headquarters of the camp, muttering and gesticulating to himself almost incessantly.

  17. The whole overhanging mass tottered at the moment, but did not yet fall.

  18. Companionless, uncared for, he tottered along, breathing with extreme difficulty.

  19. I tottered to the mantel, and felt along it for matches.

  20. I put a venerable smoking-cap on my venerable head, and, coughing a little from my exertions, tottered out upon the landing.

  21. He waited till Polykarp had picked himself up, and, without looking round, but pressing his hands to the back of his head, had tottered away like a drunken man.

  22. Hermas looked after him for a long time greatly distressed, for his strong friend tottered like a drunken man, and often pressed his hand to his head which was no doubt as burning as his lips.

  23. But he tottered as he walked; his appearance was that of a man covered with wounds and bending beneath a heavy burden, and he stumbled at every step.

  24. Already severely wounded by two shots, the chief tottered back to the edge of the pit, where he lost his balance.

  25. Right and left, as she tottered to the house, she searched for the stranger with a yearning, but the stranger was gone.

  26. The crowd parted and her eyes fell on the colored man; with a cry she tottered toward him.

  27. He tottered into the drawing-room--grown dingy now that it had no more daughters to dispose of--and shrank before the resplendence with which their presence reinvested it.

  28. Five minutes later he tottered into the house groaning with pain, stricken unto death by the hand of a just God, as a punishment for his sins.

  29. Mrs. Carteret tottered under the stress of her emotions, and would have fallen, had not Miller caught and sustained her with his arm until they reached the house, where he turned over her fainting form to Carteret at the door.

  30. When her strength failed her, and she knew that her end was at hand, she sat down tremblingly and wrote a long letter in the Hebrew character, sealed it, and then tottered out to the post-office with it.

  31. She got a receipt for the letter which she registered, and then tottered home and died.

  32. He rose shakily, and tottered away heavily on the arm of an anxious steward who had come running up.

  33. At the admiral's gesture the marines made short work of the manacles, and Hanlon stood up, tottered a moment and would have fallen but for the quickly extended friendly arm of the admiral.

  34. He turned perfectly livid, took a long breath, tottered backwards and sat down again.

  35. La Vallière raised her veil, her face was moist with tears, she tottered forward with difficulty and sank upon her knees.

  36. So Beasley tottered to his feet, and stood there swaying.

  37. More than that, I took him upon my back and tottered up the ladder with him, the lady assisting as well as she was able.

  38. Old Jordan tottered through the room to take a last look at his dead daughter.

  39. The old man got up and tottered to his room.

  40. The Return of Ease made me forgive the rough Obligation laid upon me, which at that time relieved my Body from a Distemper, and will my Mind for ever from a Folly.

  41. Despite all her Western courage and energy, Insula Magnet tottered by the way.

  42. These embryonic pirates tottered like their commander with an overwhelming fear.

  43. When Ellesworth had finished his question the old woman got up and, supported by her stick, tottered to his side, and peered up into his face.

  44. She tottered to the little window that looked into the mill; she saw her noble lover's handsome face, and uttered a piercing cry: "Ralph!

  45. She tottered across the room and sank into a chair.

  46. At last she felt that she could walk; she tottered back across the room, back to the door, and her twitching fingers were once more fumbling with the bolts.

  47. The old man tottered down the steps, firmly holding the coat of his guide, who had almost to carry him.

  48. Then Ehrenthal rose, took up his office-candle, and tottered out of the room.

  49. He tottered into the court where Itzig's office was, and looked up at the agent's windows.

  50. Then the apparition vanished, Ehrenthal rushed off with a shriek, and the baron tottered out of the house.

  51. The children were startled, the boy dropped the oar, the little girl tottered more than before, and, in the terror of a guilty conscience, lost her balance and fell into the water.

  52. The baron tottered back to his sitting-room, where he sank down on the sofa as if paralyzed.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tottered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.