STAGGERING in a Sentence

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122 example sentences for STAGGERING, such as:

1. The baby dog staggered to me.
2. The friend came staggering to him.
3. He staggered drunkenly toward the door.
4. The injured woman staggered to her feet.
5. The two drunken men stagger into the room.

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 Meanings and Examples of STAGGERING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
staggering
 a.  causing great astonishment, amazement, or dismay; overwhelming; strikingly
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  Little children hurried by their sides, staggering under buckets of steaming molasses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  Between a waste of tracks and a raw gouged hill they found poverty in staggering shanties.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  But by an effort she rallied her staggering faculties and managed to regain the land.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
4  And when he got home perhaps he would have to trudge several blocks, and come staggering back through the snowdrifts with a bag of coal upon his shoulder.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  Turning his head swiftly, the youth saw his friend running in a staggering and stumbling way toward a little clump of bushes.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  He groaned from his heart and went staggering off.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  So, staggering before the loud soldier, he began: "Yes, yes."
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  The friend came staggering to him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  With this terrible grin of resolution he hugged his precious flag to him and was stumbling and staggering in his design to go the way that led to safety for it.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
10  And after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the saber, he sank on the snow beside it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V
11  Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
12  Two tall old peasants with wrinkled faces and scanty beards emerged from the tavern, smiling, staggering, and singing some incoherent song, and approached the officers.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIII
13  It was only now that he noticed wounded men staggering along or being carried on stretchers.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
14  On seeing Pierre he grew confused at first, but noticing embarrassment on Pierre's face immediately grew bold and, staggering on his thin legs, advanced into the middle of the room.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVII
15  After staggering into Smolensk which seemed to them a promised land, the French, searching for food, killed one another, sacked their own stores, and when everything had been plundered fled farther.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  He reports almost 16,000 incidents of fake notes in the first three months of 2006, a staggering 92 percent increase compared to the same period a year ago.
2  The financial impact on the town was staggering.
3  I was absolutely staggered when I saw the bill.
4  He staggered drunkenly toward the door.
5  The injured woman staggered to her feet.
6  I staggered and had to clutch at a chair for support.
7  The baby dog staggered to me.
8  I hooked his foot when he passed me and he staggered but didn't fall.
9  She staggered about whether to reveal it all.
10  He staggered on the uneven surface of the car park.
11  After he was attacked, he managed to stagger to the phone and call for help.
12  We seem to stagger from one crisis to the next.
13  The decision appeared to stagger defense attorneys Williamson and Michael W.
14  The two drunken men stagger into the room.
15  Mercutio, fatally stabbed, staggers round the stage in his death throes.