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Example sentences for "unsteady"

Lexicographically close words:
unstandardized; unstarched; unsteadied; unsteadily; unsteadiness; unstimulating; unstinted; unstirred; unstirring; unstopped
  1. If it is so really," he said in an odd, unsteady voice, "he brings bad news.

  2. The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but to him that soweth justice, there is a faithful reward.

  3. Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.

  4. He broke the seal with unsteady hands, fearing to let his eyes fall upon the opening page.

  5. With slow steps, that were unsteady from sudden weakness, Irene moved along the road that led to her home.

  6. His eyes, his unsteady walk, all announced a high stage of inebriety.

  7. Slim Garrabrant could not accompany them that particular time, having injured his right arm so that he must be unsteady in the saddle; which fact Jack observed virtually cinched the plan they had been arranging.

  8. He walked with unsteady step to her bedside and whispered: "Are you sick, Ma?

  9. But though a steady drinker, and occasionally an unsteady one, Marchmont had his value.

  10. Stormont filled his glass and he resumed in an unsteady voice: "Cliff rises from the creek in a little round hollow.

  11. Since they broke his outline, it would be hard to see him by the unsteady light.

  12. He got up and filled his pipe with an unsteady hand.

  13. Thanks,' she began in an unsteady voice, 'thanks for coming.

  14. All this little speech was delivered by Aratov in that ringing but unsteady voice in which very young people answer at examinations on a subject in which they are well prepared.

  15. Here, in this world mapped out by toys, with that soft unsteady brilliance rising from about men's feet, he could not even hope to rouse dissent.

  16. He raised an unsteady hand to his head and closed his eyes.

  17. He took unsteady aim at a shadow and fired.

  18. And when his stomach seemed a bit unsteady You got your serviceable basin ready.

  19. I'm frightened again," he said, in an unsteady voice.

  20. He came in with a hurried, unsteady step.

  21. The only noises were the low hum of conversations, the unsteady click of the telegraph key, and the tapping of the chalk in the marker's fingers.

  22. I watched him in silence for a moment, studying the shrunken outline of his face and the unsteady gleam of his narrowed eyes.

  23. The stairs resounded to a series of unsteady footbeats, and the door of my study was flung back.

  24. I had a glimpse of a single unsteady street lamp on the corner, and a dim sign, "Mate Lane.

  25. So far as France was concerned, the government of Louis XVI was friendly; but its finances were in such confusion and its administration so unsteady after 1783 that Jefferson, Minister to France, could secure no important concessions save one.

  26. He undid the boxes with unsteady fingers, and brought out of one the title-deeds of a property at Tergou.

  27. Demades, after the death of Alexander, compared the Macedonian army to the Cyclops after his eye was out, seeing their many disorderly and unsteady motions.

  28. She was re-arranging her books once more and had them in an unsteady pile on the edge of her desk, when Elizabeth leaned over to her side, to display her finished landscape.

  29. Hope deferred made Miss Gordon's nerves unsteady and her heart hard towards the cause of her daily disappointment.


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