Unsteady

//ʌnˈstɛdi//

"Unsteady" in a Sentence (12 examples)

I observed that his hands were unsteady.

I drank too much and was unsteady on my feet.

He was unsteady on his feet.

The gait of my friend was unsteady, and the bells upon his cap jingled as he strode.

Tom insisted he hadn't been drinking, but his slurred speech and unsteady gait gave him away.

Tom was unsteady on his feet.

Yanni was unsteady on his feet.

My gait is unsteady from lack of sleep.

They went home together, Tess holding one arm of her father, and Mrs Durbeyfield the other. He had, in truth, drunk very little—not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind. On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath—which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical effects, not quite so comic after all.

She had knocked back a fair amount of vodka, and was quite unsteady on her feet.

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A slightly unsteady item of furniture.

"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day:[…]"

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