Were it not for the spinning of the top about its axis, it would promptly fall over when tipped from the vertical position, but the spin combines with the force which pulls the top over and produces the wobbling motion.
Outside, the pelting rain beat against his face; and he saw Dorine ahead of him, wobbling down the street under her umbrella, with that angry, straddling walk of hers.
Has not your perception of duty, and your devotion to it, at one time clear and strong, become at another so dim and feeble, that you have been utterly ashamed of your wobbling and cowardice, and amazed at your failure?
Short of ricochet, the influence of simple wobbling must also be considered in shots from a long range.
He indicated the rifle wobbling in Sears' arm and held up two fingers.
Then I felt it begin to move, in wobbling fashion, with awkward, ungainly gait, stopping every now and then, as if for rest.
I became more and more conscious of an uncomfortable wobbling motion, as if each time it breathed its body heaved.
If you floated it in water it would wobble about until eventually it did the same thing; and if you floated it in air it would wobble again, and such wobbling would obviously be detrimental to its straight and even flight.
With a hoarse bleat of alarm, thinking he was about to be deserted, the calf followed after the sled, his long legs wobbling awkwardly.
The poor Glow-worm minus the one fender looked like a glow-worm with one wing off and the wobbling wheel gave it a tipsy appearance.
At that she put on speed and went forward as fast as the wobbling wheel would allow.
The mode of progression is wobbling and risky, but the improbability of revisiting Senana supplied a mental argument of unfailing force in balancing pros and cons.
A wobbling erection of crossed oars, a plank insecurely poised on the shoulders of two men, a rocking bloto, and an occasional wade to shore, with shoes and stockings in hand, vary the monotony of the proceedings.
He stood wobbling his canoe, stabbing at the water aimlessly, and the oratorical manner he maintained would have been funny, had not his very words revealed his befuddled condition.
Getting all his jewelry straight, pulling down his monogrammed white sweater, he rose, as one towering on the rostrum and stood feet planted wide apart in the wobbling craft.
However, after wobbling wildly from side to side, I managed to get the thing going, and pedalled off down the centre of the road as steadily as my half-numbed senses would allow.
At last, after wobbling feebly up a long slope, I found I had reached the extreme edge of the Moor.
A skilled falconer will hold his hand almost still while his whole body is being jogged about in a jolting dogcart or wobbling railway carriage.
There was once a lame merlin which had injured her wing badly against a wire, and could only just fly at all, and that with a clumsy wobbling action.
As it was Wobbling Willie rolled about like a ship at sea, and Brighton Pref passed him in a common canter.
Rapidly the pink sunrise swept behind the rugged mountains to the left, and was reflected in wobbling ripples in the bay.
Bruin was still steering as fancy dictated, the bow of the ship wobbling this way and that.
In the meantime the captain of the other steamer was trying his best to get his craft out of the way of the wobbling "Richmond.
It must be that everything has had time to root here, people and all," I answered as I again avoided a farm wagon and a negro driving two fine milk-cows with cow babies wobbling along at their flanks.
I didn't think then that I liked it and I also felt that I wished I had stayed by Sam at that wobbling period of his career; but, on the other hand, it was plainly my duty to go to Europe with Mabel and Peter Vandyne and Miss Greenough.
And Lizaveta Petrovna, with one hand supporting the wobbling head, lifted up on the other arm the strange, limp, red creature, whose head was lost in its swaddling clothes.
We saw two soldiers in the corner of a ward, their headswobbling in perfect rhythm, ceaselessly from side to side, like the pendulum of a clock, with dead expressionless faces.
It rather jarred his sensibilities to hear the mirthful laughter and bantering remarks and to see the Annamites towing an extraordinarily wobbling machine toward the repair shop.
The plane, after wobbling and staggering for the briefest instant, began a spinning dive toward the earth; and before it had gone many hundred feet a portion of one of its wings was seen to become detached.
Within the past three years a wobbling of the earth's axis has been discovered, which takes place within a circle thirty feet in radius and sixty feet in diameter.
The exact nature and amount of the wobbling is a work of the exact astronomy of the present time.
It is not simply a motion of the pole of the earth, but a wobbling of the solid earth itself.
He got to his feet, wobbling a little bit in the soaring plane.
It had no wings, but a blue-white flame spurted out of its rear, wobbling from side to side for reasons best known to itself.
Bonner, his own leg wobbling and covered with blood, tried to quiet her, but without success.
Liech, now quite drunk, was helplessly wobbling in different directions, whilst in a fuddled voice he kept asserting that he was--an archbishop.
Liekh, as drunk as a lord, waswobbling against the wall with his hands behind him, and hardly able to stammer out a syllable.
This great wobblinghat only caused the horse to buck worse than ever, until he tired of his performance and came to a sudden halt.
Of course a great deal depends on the strength of the seat of the rider; for we must sit very tight and not let our mount feel us wobbling about in the saddle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wobbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
