(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.
Toddler
Definition:
(n.) One who toddles; especially, a young child.
Example Sentences:
(1) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(2) A toddler with common variable hypoimmunoglobulinemia (CVH), inflammatory bowel disease, and recurrent Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) on intravenous gammaglobulin (IVIG) replacement was evaluated for a combined cellular immunodeficiency.
(3) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.
(4) Sixty mother-toddler dyads (30 boys and 30 girls) participated as subjects.
(5) Children 1 to 6 months old had over twice the morbidity from diarrhea if assigned to the antimicrobial group as compared to placebo, while the toddler group (7-30 months) taking the antimicrobial had somewhat less diarrhea.
(6) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(7) These findings indicate a need for Los Angeles County to address the problem of drownings among infants and toddlers in private swimming pools and to investigate the failure of regulations requiring fencing of swimming pools to prevent these deaths.
(8) Pictures of children as young as toddlers posed in sexually suggestive ways are easily found online in Japan .
(9) Survey results suggest that parents are more likely to misuse car seats for infants than toddlers.
(10) There were significant differences in temperament dimension scores between Australian toddlers and those studied in an American setting.
(11) We examined a cross-section of infants and toddlers to determine whether the severity of asthma is associated with allergy as has been reported in older children with asthma.
(12) The provision of structure in the form of thematically related toy sets, instructions, and modeling did not reduce the discrepancy between demonstrated play behaviors of toddlers with SLI-E and their normally developing peers.
(13) An earlier observational study of mothers and toddlers in the supermarket revealed differential success of 2 styles of maternal behavior.
(14) The dental profession must not ignore the oral health needs of infants and toddlers under three years of age.
(15) Dr Sabah al-Zayyat, 52, paediatrician The doctor was the last medical professional to examine the toddler before his death and the only person so far sacked in connection with the case.
(16) Standing in the kitchen was a large, middle-aged woman wearing a sweater and keeping an eye on her toddler.
(17) Twenty-five mother-toddler dyads with depressed mothers were compared with 25 dyads with well mothers on measures of attention during 20 min of spontaneous play in a home-like setting.
(18) He’s supped at this table since he’s been three years old,” Biden’s beaming father said in celebrating the election of his son, who was a toddler when his father was elected to the Senate.
(19) As increasing numbers of women have entered the labor force, increasing numbers of children, particularly infants and toddlers, have become active participants in child care.
(20) Experience with the behavioral assessment of hearing sensitivity is reported for 211 babies and toddlers aged 6-24 months.