Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet TOTTERING

Definition av TOTTERING

1. böjningsform av totter
2. presensparticip av totter

Exempel på hur man kan använda TOTTERING i en mening

• Like his father, he soon won the confidence of the people, but coming at a time when the powers of the proprietors were already tottering, he was baffled in his efforts to conciliate the colonists, by the proprietors' own greed and folly, and in his endeavors to sustain their authority he lost whatever influence he might have exercised.
• Tomlinson, James Bone, London editor of the Manchester Guardian, David Bone, writer of sea tales and master of White Star liners, Max Beerbohm, who he met at Rapallo, Aldous Huxley, Frank Morley, an editor at Faber & Faber, and Arthur Wesley Wheen, a World War I mentally scarred British spy, who was a close friend, and lived a tottering existence on the rim of life with the stress of deep guilt, and was translator of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back, which was published in 1929.
• In a wasteland of tired leering humour, only Graham Stark's zany miming and Irene Handl's tottering gentility stand out.
• MP and war profiteer William Poyser (Hurst) wants her business and property to shore up his tottering career, through marriage.
• Back in the real world, however, David Ryder-Prangley's cartoon bad-ass vocals and filthy riffing with have you rifling through your mum's stiletto collection and tottering around your kitchen in ecstatic glee.

• Certainly she was the more forceful, physically, and vocally, but she was disqualified for high tragic roles by the fact that she had ridiculously small feet for a well developed woman, and used to walk in mincing and tottering steps in moments when rhythmic striding was needed.

• The lamentable and loudly detestable sins of this tottering age, surrounded by the dire barkings of obscene and fearsome mortality, challenge and urge us, not carefree in a homeland where peace has been attained but, as it were, teetering over an abyss of fetid corruption, that we should flee those things not only by despising them together with their misfortunes with the whole effort of our mind but also by hating them just like the wearisome nausea of melancholy, striving towards that Gospel text, "Give and it will be given unto you".

• The picture fairly throbs with spectacular views, the brigade swinging with frantic, Furious speed through the streets, fire laddies battling desperately against the devouring elements, the red blaze bursting across surging banks of smoke, walls tottering and crashing.
• They take an idea and clothe it in so many other ideas that it almost topples under the weight, tottering and stumbling but always kept upright by the confidence of the drummer Gareth Champion, and the sheer brilliance of their playing.

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