(1) "You see all sorts of people in back alleys and streets tiddling up walls and it's not acceptable.
Toddle
Definition:
(v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
(n.) A toddling walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
(2) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
(3) Thank you, thank you,” he says, then dictates into my tape recorder: “‘You’re a fuckin’ star,’ she says walking by, an attractive young woman in burgundy jeans.” Is there a danger that he’ll lead the masses up the hill, then toddle off to Hollywood and give up on the revolution?
(4) Already, my toddling cousins – the people we call "digital natives" today – would pose in front of my phone and make clicking sounds: smart enough to understand what phones should be able to do; stupid enough that they could not see mine was not fit for purpose.
(5) She was just standing by the big sash window in her bedroom when she spotted Mrs Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens unguarded.
(6) At the Christmas family gathering that year, Grandfather deemed any and all children present who were old enough to walk instead of toddle therefore old enough to sing a carol, recite a poem, and drink a cup of kindness made with brandy, cinnamon, and apples.
(7) Updated at 5.50pm BST 5.39pm BST Amid lots of yelping and squealing by idlers on the side of the road, the riders toddle around Versailles.
(8) The brands bang on as though they are philanthropists rather than brands seeking to lock down kids as consumers as soon as they can toddle to the pretend bank.
(9) Led by her exasperated mother, she toddles in coughing and spluttering helplessly into the doctor’s face.
(10) Despite its subject, the short story is funny and thought-provoking, based on the real event when Mantel actually spotted Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens of the Windsor flat she lived in.
(11) Like an anxious parent unwilling to trust the house to a teenage son, Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has told Mario Balotelli that he can't risk leaving him behind when he toddles off to the World Cup.
(12) She's going to walk along the line with her thank you and bye-bye, then toddle round the side, duck into a limo and she's away.
(13) Manager news now and filling Steve McClaren’s shoes at Newcastle will be Rafa Benítez , who’ll keep the Magpies up before toddling off in the summer and paving the way for either David Moyes or Brendan Rodgers (or maybe even both) to take up the reins.
(14) The child, rescued from the trafficker, is now toddling around outside the house in just a nappy.
(15) Sure, Oxford mathematicians could toddle off to Barclays Capital.
(16) 9.18pm GMT 75 min: Neuer has to toddle out of his box against to reach a short back pass.
(17) Mitt Romney's merry world tour toddles on today with a visit to Poland.