How to Use unsteady in a Sentence

unsteady

adjective

• The progress of the work has been unsteady.
• The horse walked with an unsteady gait.
• He signed his name with an unsteady hand.
• He was a little unsteady on his feet.
• The third stayed in a dark stall for a week, unsteady and weak.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2021
• Her unsteady words echoed through the hearing room, 35 miles and a chasm away from the Shakopee prison.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• The Nets are not just any team with a rookie coach and an unsteady lineup.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2021
• The year 2022 will mark nine decades of being alive — a foreign, unsteady thought.
  — Amy X. Wang, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
• On-the-Ball Plank Adding a ball to your plank means your core works hard to keep you steady on an unsteady surface.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 23 Feb. 2023
• The route to Sykes is not for the unsteady or overburdened hiker.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
• The female driver was unsteady on her feet and scratched up.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2022
• The suspect was unsteady and had a strong odor of alcohol on him.
  — cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
• In this case, though, the cast seems unsteady, or at least unconvinced.
  — Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Astros, by contrast, cashed in against an unsteady Chris Sale right away.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• After his 2017 surgery left him unsteady and in pain, BJ was able to secure full-time care.
  — State Of Denial, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2020
• Plus, the Yankees bullpen had been unsteady during the Series.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Bonet had red, glassy eyes, slurred speech, an odor of alcohol on his breath, and was unsteady on his feet.
  — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• The work shows a man on a crooked path, in an unsteady green landscape, walking toward dogs, one of which has a smudge of paint for a nose.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• In late 2020, Williams suffered a stroke that left her unsteady on her feet and unable to play guitar.
  — Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
• One pitch stood between the A’s left-hander and a strong finish to an unsteady outing.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Aug. 2021
• The farm is heavily mortgaged, and the business is unsteady.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 June 2022
• Tapered hulls may make carriers look unsteady, but there’s more than meets the eye here.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Gas prices alone rose 48% in March, contributing to the unsteady feeling that consumers have about their wealth and the health of the U.S. economy.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2022
• The sound of the bucket is unruly, unsteady, but still very rhythmic, almost like a heartbeat.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2021
• With advanced age, muscle weakness leads to an unsteady gait and a much greater risk of falling.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2023
• The iPhone can now detect the kind of unsteady gait that might lead to a fall several weeks or even months prior and warn of higher risk.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2022
• The victim appeared unsteady on his feet while on the platform, said Sullivan in an e-mail to The Boston Globe.
  — Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2022
• The officer noted the suspect was unsteady on his feet, had slurred speech and his eyes were rolling back into his head.
  — cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
• The Bengals are the current five-seed in the conference, though Baltimore (8-4) has looked unsteady and could fall from the top of the division.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
• Since then, the industry has been on unsteady ground, with the rise of streaming, last year’s dual strikes, and a dependence on endless, exhausted franchises.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024