How to Use wobble in a Sentence

wobble

1 of 2 verb

• The vase wobbled but didn't fall over.
• The table wobbles a little.
• The boy was wobbling along on his bicycle.
• They have been wobbling in their support of the president's policies.
• This type of knot helps hold the button in place and keeps it from wobbling back and forth.
  — Vanessa Nirode, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
• The kindergartners came out of the lunch line with trays wobbling.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• If the piece is in good condition, the arm won’t wobble or creak.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• The ball wobbled, and was picked off by safety Josh Metellus to end the threat.
  — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• All nuts and bolts should be tight and no parts of the swing set should wobble or jiggle.
  — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• Like many spawn of the ’80s and ’90s, my own childhood jiggled and wobbled.
  — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Oct. 2023
• That’s when Brito began to wobble and LeCroy rushed to his side.
  — Alyssa Hertel, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2021
• If the blades are not even, then the fan will wobble and rattle during use.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2022
• The squirrel appears to wobble and sway, his feet steady on a wood block.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2020
• Many of the mid-pack finishers, and those at the tail end, wobbled ashore, red-eyed and struggling to speak.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• The steel structure doesn't wobble, and the whole thing just looks so attractive on a desk.
  — Wired, 11 July 2022
• The chair can then wobble back and forth among its four legs, the ends of any three of them lying in the plane of the floor, but the fourth being out of place.
  — Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• But on video, the strapping man with the ginger beard does not appear to wobble.
  — Bryan Denson, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2020
• Like a baby learning to walk, Lance has to wobble and fall.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2021
• There is no room for wobbling, as far as Trump is concerned.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2019
• Bread pudding should wobble like a gelatin mold when removed from the oven.
  — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2021
• Tatum might have been at his best early in the third quarter, when the Celtics started to wobble the champs.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2022
• The axis of the moon is tilted only 1.5 degrees and does not wobble much.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• The guitars strike sky-high notes that wobble with some unease, but keep their aim true.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
• It’s made from durable alloy steel, and the frame has four supportive legs that won’t wobble.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• An axle started to wobble on the youth movement before the game started.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2022
• In the 2010s, grime splintered off into drill, a style ruled by wobbling, scanning bass sounds.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2020
• Damaged or dirty blades will cause the ceiling fan to wobble and rattle.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2022
• There are even adjustable foot pads, so the table won’t scratch your floors or threaten to wobble.
  — Rachel Simon, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• The median has wobbled between $1.5 million and $1.8 million for more than a year.
  — Gary Klien, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
• The wobbling tilt and any natural variations to the shape of Earth’s orbit can change the amount and distribution of sunlight reaching Earth.
  — Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024

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wobble

2 of 2 noun

• Thanks to the restoration process, none of the trim wobbles or creaks, and no levers sit limp.
  — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
• Went up for a layup in Louisville, came down, and felt her left knee wobble.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2019
• The best part: this desk is built hard-wearing and wobble-free.
  — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• The new Blue switch, however, seemed to have about the same amount of wobble.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2023
• The dogs are barking and tugging so hard that the sled, though fixed to a post, bucks and wobbles.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• In this case, the master clock that keeps track of the muons’ wobble had been set to a rate unknown to the researchers.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• And the long back legs demand a large, flat surface on which to plop the Kickback, lest the chair wobble.
  — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2020
• For the remainder of the cycle, the moon's wobble boosts the effects of sea-level rise.
  — NBC News, 16 July 2021
• The Dolphins later said the wobble was caused by a back injury.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 16 Oct. 2022
• The Bay Area has been able — for now — to withstand the wobbles in the region’s tech industry.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• On the trigger guard was a tag in the same hand as the hunting licenses, a slight wobble to it now.
  — Natalie Krebs, Field & Stream, 15 Dec. 2020
• There was a little wobble about their name amongst the Island staff—they were being called the U2s.
  — Chris Blackwell With Paul Morley, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• The moon’s wobble is on an 18-year cycle that affects king tides.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
• This is due to the placement of the sun, moon and Earth, which are nearly in a flat plane but have a wobble to their orbit.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
• Only a slight wobble in the path could send the core onto the Florida coast.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 2 Sep. 2019
• Austria’s Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller survived a wobble before the finish to get the bronze.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
• The keys do have just an itty-bitty bit of wobble to them, but not enough to be a concern.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2023
• If there's a big wobble, leave it in longer for the right consistency.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2023
• Closely guarded, Metcalf still caught the ball, which had a slight wobble, in a dive.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
• Austria’s Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller survived a wobble just before the finish line to get the bronze.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• Another way to understand the wobble is to think of it as a mistake — a glitch in the system.
  — Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada Martin Bourne, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• On a normal track, that might lead to a wobble that drivers can often save, but slows them down.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2022
• Placing the phone on a table and tapping a corner results in a bonkers amount of wobble.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• The music is drippy and constant, the wobble from comedy to drama feels off, and the dialects have been reamed in the Irish press.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• After some wobbles last year, U.S. stock indexes have been on a tear in 2019.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• The storm also shifted slightly north in passing Guam; that wobble kept the center of the eye just offshore.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• The wobble had revealed a world half the size of Jupiter orbiting around a sunlike star some 50 million light-years from Earth.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2021
• The case itself is pretty standard and nearly eliminates the wobble from the camera bump on the back.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 11 Sep. 2020
• The chair is cooled in a water bath for 10 minutes, squared up to eliminate wobble, and baked overnight to take the aluminum up to T6—three times the hardness of steel.
  — Scott Suchman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2021
• Another key to tame wobble is to simply relax a little.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024