toddle

verb

Definition of toddlenext
as in to totter

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Recent Examples of toddle On this trip back to the mountain village, children and chickens toddle around, and Elba scrubs laundry in an outdoor basin. — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Dec. 2025 The sight of hundreds of tiny turtle hatchlings toddling their way down to the lapping ocean waves is the surest way to take your breath away. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025 As players cleared the court, Ares could be seen with his mom, toddling across the hardwood with a basketball in hand, chasing after loose balls and even giving dribbling a try before his dad scooped him up. — Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 16 Oct. 2025 The cost of transport while flying works out to be about 36, but just 14 while crawling, meaning that the robot is more than twice as efficient while toddling along on the ground. — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2016 See All Example Sentences for toddle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toddle
  1. totter
  2. lurch
  3. stumble
  4. flounder
  5. shake
  6. falter
  7. waver
Verb
  • In an accompanying cartoon, Spark is caricatured as a sulking giant, tottering above the Tuscan countryside in a pair of high heels.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • Among them a City boy wearing three Fit-Bit-type devices, two beautiful Middle Eastern sisters, an outrageously pompous elderly American (sorry; eavesdropping), and several Imelda Marcos lookalikes, tottering out of the treatment rooms with, somehow, their elaborate hairstyles still intact.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Definition of totter
Verb
  • Once, somewhere in southern Virginia, Dad performed the customary lurch off the highway in the direction of a promising barbecue counter.
    — Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • The same boom-and-bust dependency on the oil industry, whose profits were now funnelled through the regime and its allies, kept the country lurching from one crisis to the next.
    — Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
Definition of lurch
Verb
  • After a chance meeting saving the life of a reporter, Dez stumbles across a vast conspiracy and now must stop the forces intent on keeping their secrets safe.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 6 July 2026
  • The hole was discovered in early April when a volunteer on a weekend cemetery clean-up day stumbled upon it.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
Definition of stumble
Verb
  • Bichette, meanwhile, has struggled as well and his return to Toronto called attention to the fact that both the Mets and the Blue Jays are falling short in the standings as their star players flounder without each other.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • But Klug wasn’t sure any individual Democrat could outrun the negative perception that pervades a state where the party has floundered of late.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Definition of flounder
Verb
  • The iconic bunny costume moment, when Elle is tricked into showing up to a non-costume party wearing a Playboy bunny get-up, was the catalyst for exploring how Elle was able to shake that humiliation off.
    — Scarlett Harris, IndieWire, 6 July 2026
  • This tournament has built credibility by showcasing teams competing at a high level, then shaking hands afterward.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of shake
Verb
  • Current training methods, such as reinforcement learning, can produce robots that are very good at consistently performing a specific task under very specific conditions—but such robots may falter on the same task under different conditions.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026
  • Without this common utility, even the most complex of war machines will falter.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
Definition of falter
Verb
  • Even after the sub-par performance against Paraguay – admittedly, the South Americans’ physicality and aggression contributed to that – the fans’ belief never wavered.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
  • As the city fell in love with soccer, Meola said, the fan support wavered little.
    — Kamran Nia July 9, Charlotte Observer, 9 July 2026
Definition of waver

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