Sentence examples for about to falter from inspiring English sources

It seemed about to falter when competition was kindled afresh and sent it climbing to $11.06 million.

Unlike John Keats, they have little reason to produce an Ode To Autumn – not to cricket in autumn at any rate – as suggestions grow that their championship challenge is about to falter at the last.

The crisis came to a head last week when the possibility that a huge finance company, Countrywide Financial, was about to falter sent markets into a tailspin.

Longtime residents estimated that the heat began to falter about a decade ago.

And it began to falter about 11 00, maybe 12 00, and then began to plunge.

The company began to falter about 2007 when many of its borrowers defaulted, sending the loans into foreclosure.

Tennis players start to falter at about twenty-four.

Mr. Feinberg's brash, can-do optimism about his new task seemed to falter for a moment last Tuesday.

The transmitters' batteries tend to falter after about fifteen months also the age at which mountain lions typically leave their mothers, a behavior that scientists call dispersal.

By the time Dewaldon and Rita Frazier found each other at Gloryland Baptist Church, they had both learned a thing or two about the heart's capacity to falter and rise again.

What's more, the telegraph business began to falter just about the time the overnight package business exploded.