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Example sentences for "totters"

Lexicographically close words:
totos; tots; totter; tottered; tottering; tottery; totting; totum; totus; tou
  1. The man loosens his hold on the curtain, and totters back.

  2. The man throws up his arms, and totters back and falls into a seat from very weakness.

  3. He lowers his head--he cannot speak--then slowly rising he totters out of the room.

  4. He totters to the Elbe, which separates him from his comrades; there is no longer a bridge there; he does not trust his strength to swim across.

  5. The Last Leaf I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane.

  6. But at last this little fellow Doffs his dainty coat of yellow, And very feebly totters o'er the green; For he very old is growing And with hair all white and flowing, A-nodding in the sunlight he is seen.

  7. Count Roland follows Gerold; and he totters from recent wounds!

  8. Do not thrust into the grave one who already totters on the brink!

  9. Totters the house as though, like dry leaf shorn From autumn bough and on the mad blast borne, Up from its deep foundations it were torn To join the stormy whirl.

  10. England shakes and totters already, by reason of the burden that Mr. Badman and his friends have wickedly laid upon it.

  11. The ball trembles and totters for a moment or two, in a state of indecision, and then, as if magnetically drawn towards Scylla on one side or Charybdis on the other, slowly disappears from our sight.

  12. He totters with astonishment and happiness.

  13. Only my brain totters and I am terribly afraid of madness.

  14. His sword of power is fallen, but not into the hands that clasped it, and he totters on his throne.

  15. He bids her follow him, and totters back to the little parlor.

  16. But the word of his owner is absolute, and in obedience to the wave of her hand he totters to the door, and disappears.

  17. I SAW him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane.

  18. Moreover, it is no shame to overthrow old age, which of its own weight sinks and totters to its fall.

  19. It will be more fitting for beasts of burden to carry weak old men, when their steps fail them; the wheel, driving round and round, serves for him whose foot totters feebly.

  20. Public credit totters already, and if (as has been presaged) there should be a national bankruptcy, or a sponge to wipe out the national debt, you may yet see me in a workhouse.

  21. Scar'd Reason totters on her throne, And Hope is fled!

  22. Then comes the thrust through its heart; it cracks, snaps, and now the giant totters and bends; whizzing and whistling in an immense circle, it falls with a wild crash to the earth.

  23. But the rain has nearly washed out the old-fashioned letters, and the post itself totters in the wind.

  24. Without it the individual totters and falls before the first puff of adversity or temptation; whereas, inspired by it, the weakest become strong and full of courage.

  25. She gets out of bed and takes several steps toward the garden doorway; she totters and sways, then, turning, stumbles back to the bed for support.

  26. She totters fearfully to the door, after many hesitant backward glances, and opens it slowly and as if she had never known how to open it.

  27. Instead, his horse seems stuck fast in the mud, and is making no effort to advance; but totters on his limbs as though about to lose them!

  28. Not much this; for every now and then it totters in its steps, and threatens going to grass, in a way different from what it might wish.


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