How to Use stagger in a Sentence

stagger

1 of 2 verb

• A hard slap on the back staggered him.
• She staggered over to the sofa.
• It staggers me to see how much money they've spent on this project.
• They staggered the runners' starting positions.
• Silas spoke many weeks ago about the need to stagger his young guards.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 18 Feb. 2022
• The routes will have staggered start dates between May 2 and May 25.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 29 Feb. 2024
• Panicked men and women staggering down the road just in front of her fell to the ground in pools of blood.
  — Isabel Debre, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• Also, the new wall will be staggered, with breaks in places to allow access to the beach.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
• Start in a side plank on the right side, with shoulders and hips stacked, and feet staggered with your right foot in front of your left.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 23 Feb. 2023
• Vogel will have to find a way to stagger James’ minutes.
  — Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2021
• Members serve staggered four-year terms and meet about twice a month during the school year.
  — Niki Griswold, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• At Orion, the sets are staggered so the music’s nonstop.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 7 Aug. 2023
• Maybe the answer is staggering a couple starters with the bench unit.
  — Pat Graham, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
• Straighten your legs and either stack or stagger your feet heel to toe.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 16 May 2021
• The tires are staggered, with 20-inch wheels on the front and 21-inch wheels at the rear, which helps improve aerodynamics.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• Step 2: After the glue dries, collect all the ribbon ends and stagger them so that the cones fall at varying lengths.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Dec. 2022
• Cronin said the offense staggered because of a lack of ball movement and tempo.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• According to the beer garden’s website, the hunt is staggered based on age.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 28 Mar. 2024
• In the wake of the Michigan State game, Michigan worked to have teams stagger their trips through the tunnel to avoid overlapping.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• Their terms are four years long and staggered, so half are up for election every two years.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• The days of absence are staggered so its office hours remain the same as before the trial.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 19 Dec. 2023
• Did not stagger break and lunch times, like other plants did, to allow workers to space out.
  — Sky Chadde and Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2021
• Jones sets up with his feet staggered, knees bent, right hand on alight kettlebell.
  — Matt Gagne, Men's Health, 15 Aug. 2023
• His dad would stagger scheduling to get kids to sports practice.
  — Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023
• Hernandez staggered out of the room, collapsed in front of Cole’s parents’ bedroom and died.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• One team is going to swagger out of the three-game Bay Bridge Series in Oakland, and the other team is going to stagger out of it.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
• Meanwhile, the price of Bitcoin has been staggering back up from post-FTX fallout.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
• After making a par, Finau clutched his heart, pretended to stagger off the green and kissed his ball.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 July 2022
• Zach Edey controlled the paint, Purdue fired away from behind the arc and IU staggered into halftime down 51-29.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2024
• Adding a guy like Walker to stagger rotations would keep the offense clicking at all times.
  — Nick Crain, Forbes, 5 July 2021

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stagger

2 of 2 noun

• He walked with a slight stagger.
• The guides dump our bags, collect the last of our pesos, and rush away as the rest of the group stagger in.
  — Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
• The Celtics didn't always use a stagger screen to elicit the switch.
  — Adi Joseph, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
• There are a lot of big decisions on deck as the Sox stagger to the finish.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Video shows Taylor stagger back, drop the bat and walk a few feet away, leaving a trail of blood.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• That could strengthen the new SPD leader and let the coalition stagger on.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• Tua didn’t stagger, drunkenly, to his knees and back to his feet after hitting the back of his head.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• For a season's worth of cilantro, stagger plantings every three to four weeks.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 26 May 2020
• Stay six feet apart, stagger lunches and breaks, use Clorox wipes for stations.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• A concerned Shaw watched Meyer, dazed and bleeding from scrapes, stagger to his feet.
  — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2017
• The new terms will help stagger when the seats are up for reelection until the boundaries are redrawn after the 2030 census.
  — Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• This school year, sixth- and seventh-graders didn’t get to tour the school before starting classes, nor did the school stagger student arrivals.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2022
• In the 200, in the beginning, Paffumi said that Johnson didn't understand how the stagger worked.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
• Guidelines suggest that workplaces stagger shifts, to reduce the number of people in the office at one time.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 28 June 2020
• Some places have had to remove desks, stagger scheduling and take other steps to keep children apart.
  — Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• The proud stagger beneath a sack of boulders, and the slothful atone with manic activity.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Those schools may use annex space or stagger schedules to maintain at least some distance.
  — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• Again, stagger plantings every five days or so, but also harvest properly: use scissors and cut the leaves rather than pull the plant.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2022
• Suri's daily 10-minute walk outside the family home turned into a 45-minute stagger.
  — Tara John, CNN, 2 May 2020
• Both schools stagger move-in times to limit large congregations of people.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• These passes will allow travelers to enter the park in two-hour windows to help stagger traffic.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2022
• In addition to leading with his left foot in the gun, Mayfield is removing a giant stagger step from his dropbacks.
  — cleveland, 3 June 2020
• Transportation is also a major factor for schools – but even more so in districts that stagger start times so schools can share buses.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2022
• Centers must use only one entrance, stagger drop-off schedules and try to avert close contact between children.
  — USA TODAY, 5 June 2020
• Young people, many drinking alcohol, roam the boardwalk, stagger in and out of rental houses, crowd hotel balconies.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 28 May 2022
• But a collective outage from what has typically been a remarkably consistent group at the top of the order has contributed to the Sox’ 5-7 stagger through the first two weeks of August.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
• Here, Royce is waiting to trap on the other side of the Jokic screen, but what nobody seems to realize is that this middle stagger action involves mutliple pickers.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• Only in the last stages do CWD's victims weaken, stagger, become emaciated and appear dazed.
  — Lisa Hammersly, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2022
• Teamwork comes into play here as well as some Guardians are better at doing damage, and others excel at increasing stagger.
  — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 25 Oct. 2021
• His mother said the family is aware of the smattering of crass fans who use social media to badger college kids when expectations not of their own making stagger.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018

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