How to Use doddering in a Sentence

doddering

adjective

• Brady looks more like his younger self than like a doddering old quarterback.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• But Rafael is far from impressed by the doddering image Mike cuts.
  — John Semley, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
• Churchill had come back as a very doddering, pastiche personality.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2022
• The show provided a side of the singer few had seen — a bit doddering, sometimes befuddled and the source of the series’ comedy.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
• No more doddering lawmakers, no more former presidents gone gray, and — for the love of God — no more Kennedys.
  — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Even Kathy Hilton is like a ghost of her former self, with Jen Tilly taking the crown of doddering kook away from her.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
• Langella is ferocious as the doddering old fossil on the other side of the generation gap.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
• Aides released a photo of him pacing the corridors in a bathrobe, a visual reminder of his doddering irrelevance.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018
• The doddering DeNiro staggers about like Frankenstein’s monster.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2019
• This follows the decision two years ago to close lanes to cars each way on Westlake Avenue so buses and the doddering streetcar could move through the mess.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 21 Mar. 2018
• There is a parallel to the British monarchy where the doddering old monarch clings to power too long while the successor in waiting misses out on her prime reigning years.
  — Jay Brinker, Cincinnati.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Mugabe is openly vying to become her doddering husband's successor.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2017
• Wilson is the comic relief, a doddering old white teacher who’s constantly spouting out-of-touch advice and cringeworthy old-world slang to the students.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2022
• An actor impersonating Biden as a doddering old man seems like an even staler version of what Hannity has been trotting out for months.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
• That’s when Broadbent’s whimsical eyes take over, splitting the difference between doddering old coot and magical elf.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
• Bad Ape is actually a great ape, a marvelous, semi-forgetful senior citizen whose doddering generosity is the sort that can save the day.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 June 2017
• Morton brings a refreshing comic spryness to Lear, playing him not as a doddering old man but as a vivacious, scampering jokester who expects to be treated as the life of the party.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• The president has repeatedly assailed Biden for using a Teleprompter in a bid to make the 77-year-old Democrat look doddering.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• In July, Harris was an awkward but loyal soldier in a doddering administration.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 7 Sep. 2024
• Once upon a time, a doddering old man spoke of a dream about a united city in this empire’s capital, where every man, woman, and child could walk its streets and live a good life regardless of their patrician or plebeian birthright.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
• In practice, Europeans had long experience with deficient, and even doddering, senile monarchs.
  — Rebecca Brannon / Made By History, TIME, 3 July 2024
• There’s the doddering seamstress, Kate Tardwell (Belinda Bremner), who can’t find the spectacles on her own head.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
• Tokarczuk presents her doddering old narrator as an essentially righteous avenger, cutting down those despoilers of the earth whom the vegetarian author abhors.
  — Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2024
• The first season received criticism for portraying middle age as dreary—the protagonists grappled with death, decay, and a doddering cluelessness regarding social change.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• While Biden has been vulnerable to right-wing online trolls who portrayed him as doddering and confused, recent attempts to troll and negatively meme Harris have backfired, Miller said.
  — Neenma Ebeledike, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
• But Biden put those concerns to rest, at least temporarily, with a rousing speech that far exceeded the low expectations set in part by Republican attacks portraying him as a doddering and senile old man.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
• Whether Arkel is wise or a doddering old fool is a matter of question, which the veteran Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto answers with a loud affirmation of the latter.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Using Anne Carson’s translation, Keiley turns her doddering men into proto-Parrotheads, replete with fake breasts dispensing liquor.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• In another contrast to the tight-wearing fairies of most productions, Puck and the others are outfit in pajamas, adding another layer of familiarity and doddering mortality to the proceedings.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 3 Aug. 2017
• Here McCain was comparing the worldview of a president of his own party to communism and fascism — a rebuke even deeper, in a way, than Senator Corker comparing him to a doddering half-wit.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Oct. 2017