How to Use doddering in a Sentence

doddering

adjective
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  • Not just at the doddering man himself, the one who can’t lead himself out of a basement but wants to lead the free world: Hate on them all.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
  • But Rafael is far from impressed by the doddering image Mike cuts.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Brady looks more like his younger self than like a doddering old quarterback.
    — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • This follows the decision two years ago to close lanes to cars each way on Westlake Avenue so buses and the doddering streetcar could move through the mess.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In short, Feinstein was not the doddering, half-there husk of her old self that some, eager for the 88-year-old senator to stand aside, suggest she’s become.
    — Mark Z. Barabakcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The president has repeatedly assailed Biden for using a Teleprompter in a bid to make the 77-year-old Democrat look doddering.
    — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • There is a parallel to the British monarchy where the doddering old monarch clings to power too long while the successor in waiting misses out on her prime reigning years.
    — Jay Brinker, Cincinnati.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The doddering DeNiro staggers about like Frankenstein’s monster.
    — Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2019
  • But Trump, 74, has spent months blasting his 77-year-old foe as doddering, so even an average showing by the former vice president could vault this bar.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Attention must be paid to the core audience that has stuck it out and been filling these doddering old venues with their seasoned laughter and empathy.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • Gone was the usual portrait of the U.S. president as a doddering threat to global stability.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2021
  • Sam DeLuca (Philip Goodwin) is a sage, if somewhat doddering, scholar.
    — Michael Sommers, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2016
  • General Mackenzie (Robert Gibby Brand) is a doddering old fellow still mourning the loss of his wife...and feeling a bit guilty about sending her lover on a suicide mission.
    — Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Langella is ferocious as the doddering old fossil on the other side of the generation gap.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Wilson is the comic relief, a doddering old white teacher who’s constantly spouting out-of-touch advice and cringeworthy old-world slang to the students.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2022
  • There’s the doddering seamstress, Kate Tardwell (Belinda Bremner), who can’t find the spectacles on her own head.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
  • Aides released a photo of him pacing the corridors in a bathrobe, a visual reminder of his doddering irrelevance.
    — The Economist, 26 May 2018
  • An actor impersonating Biden as a doddering old man seems like an even staler version of what Hannity has been trotting out for months.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Morton brings a refreshing comic spryness to Lear, playing him not as a doddering old man but as a vivacious, scampering jokester who expects to be treated as the life of the party.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
  • Whether Arkel is wise or a doddering old fool is a matter of question, which the veteran Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto answers with a loud affirmation of the latter.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Churchill had come back as a very doddering, pastiche personality.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Bad Ape is actually a great ape, a marvelous, semi-forgetful senior citizen whose doddering generosity is the sort that can save the day.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 June 2017
  • But there was never a news clip that vindicated Trump’s worst attacks on Biden as doddering or unable to string together a coherent argument.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Bad Ape is actually a great ape, a marvelous, semiforgetful senior citizen who speaks in broken English and whose doddering generosity is the sort that can save the day.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 July 2017
  • Here McCain was comparing the worldview of a president of his own party to communism and fascism — a rebuke even deeper, in a way, than Senator Corker comparing him to a doddering half-wit.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Oct. 2017
  • John, a retired English prof, is quickly sinking into the doddering forgetfulness of Alzheimers/dementia.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2017
  • In another contrast to the tight-wearing fairies of most productions, Puck and the others are outfit in pajamas, adding another layer of familiarity and doddering mortality to the proceedings.
    — Eben Shapiro, Time, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Mugabe is openly vying to become her doddering husband's successor.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Using Anne Carson’s translation, Keiley turns her doddering men into proto-Parrotheads, replete with fake breasts dispensing liquor.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The first season received criticism for portraying middle age as dreary—the protagonists grappled with death, decay, and a doddering cluelessness regarding social change.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023

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