toddling

present participle of toddle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for toddling
Verb
  • Seven years of stumbling around.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • After stumbling into a massive camp full of refugees from Nilfgaard’s ongoing campaign, Geralt winds up witness to a witch trial.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Moving forward, games that are either cheap to make or deemed more likely to generate significant revenue windfalls may take priority over riskier bets, said the people, while Xbox’s floundering hardware division may face a significant rethinking.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • His father exists in the world, floundering about and getting high, but the larger and more potent existence that this man has, in your case, is in your stepson’s psyche.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Back then, Newcastle’s thin squad staggered between results, lurching from challenging the best sides in the league to befuddling losses to inferior squads.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The administration’s lurching one way and another with tariffs is another example.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Just two weeks ago, Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi was shaking hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • As the title suggests, this sprawling tale centers on Raja, a man in his sixties who lives with his mother in Beirut, a city shaking with political and ecological turmoil.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Figure skaters rocking the rink this year will include Olympians Jeremy Abbott, Nathan Chen, Keegan Messing, Mariah Bell, Polina Edmunds and Sinead Kerr Marshall with partner John Kerr, alongside viral sensation Elladj Baldé and Maxim Naumov.
    Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Here’s what to know about the scandal rocking Shein.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Cincinnati is lurking at 5-1 in the Big 12 standings, but confidence in the Bearcats is wavering after a 31-point loss at Utah on Saturday.
    Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, car values are wavering.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That reinforced the idea that inflation concerns should take a backseat to worries about faltering job growth.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
  • After faltering in the semifinals of the 2024 WNBA playoffs, Wilson and the Aces capped off a dominant postseason run Friday by sweeping the Phoenix Mercury with a 97-86 win.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Audiences are already quivering with anticip— ation.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • A-fib is an irregular, quivering or often rapid heart rhythm resulting from the heart’s upper chambers, the atria, beating out of sync with the lower chambers, the ventricles.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Toddling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toddling. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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