faltering step
Frequency: 4.52.1 per million words
describes a way of walking that is unsteady, as if about to fall
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Examples (10)
- The elderly man took a faltering step towards the door.
- She watched him take his first faltering step after the accident.
- With a faltering step, he approached the podium nervously.
- The patient's faltering step showed he was still recovering.
- Each faltering step revealed his exhaustion from the long journey.
- The child took a faltering step as he learned to walk.
- Her faltering step betrayed her anxiety about the interview.
- He made a faltering step forward, unsure of the ground beneath.
- The dancer's faltering step showed she had injured her ankle.
- With every faltering step, his confidence seemed to diminish.