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stagger
Stagger the colors and the length of the colors until it looks appealing to you.
From the stltoday.com
Days when his energy flagged so suddenly that I'd have to help him stagger home.
From the washingtonpost.com
My husband and I try to stagger our work schedules so one of us is always home.
From the bloomberg.com
I suggest you just fly over Alaska, its vastness will stagger your imagination.
From the latimes.com
Stagger holes on both sides of the center line to plant a double-row living wall.
From the chron.com
Second, stop forgetting about us after we stagger away from the concession stand.
From the news-journalonline.com
One way to keep Greece in line would be to stagger the bulkier bail-out payments.
From the economist.com
We'd stagger back to the car, thank God we had a driver, and make our way home.
From the express.co.uk
He managed to stagger outside bleeding heavily before collapsing on the street.
From the dailymail.co.uk
- Lurch: an unsteady uneven gait
- Walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
- Walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"
- To arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
- Astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
- (staggers) a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling
- In aviation stagger refers to the horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man; A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; ...
- (Staggers) A stagger is a sequence of downstream gates that are offset from each other, e.g. one on the river left, the next on the river right, then left again, then right.
