TODDLE in a Sentence

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As soon as he was old enough to sit up alone and toddle about, another affliction, the nervous motion of his body, became apparent.

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 Meanings and Examples of TODDLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
toddle
 v.  walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
Classic Sentence:
1  When he had finished she sent him off to the back yard to play and watched him toddle across the straggling grass to his playhouse with great relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  As soon as he was old enough to sit up alone and toddle about, another affliction, the nervous motion of his body, became apparent.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
3  He walked like a little child who is permitted to toddle alone.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
4  When he came home from the bank in the afternoon, he took her walking down Peachtree Street, holding her hand, slowing his long strides to her toddling steps, patiently answering her thousand questions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
5  And little Eliza seconds the effort, by toddling up to her father, and trying to pull the book out of his hand, and install herself on his knee as a substitute.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
6  Kate and Julia came toddling down the dark stairs at once.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
7  At the moment Aunt Kate came toddling out of the supper-room, almost wringing her hands in despair.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
8  So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  Innumerable women who staggered along under burdens, and children who toddled beside the waggons or peeped out from under the white coverings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Example Sentence:
1  I reach up to grab the next chair so that I can toddle on my merry way.