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Discover LudwigThe phrase "he was staggering" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a person who is walking or moving in an unsteady, swaying manner, as if they are drunk or exhausted. For example: "The detective watched as the suspect stumbled away from the scene; he was staggering, obviously under the influence of alcohol."
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He was staggering around for half an hour after that.
Actually, he was staggering toward the street, just another Karachi dope fiend on open display.
He said, "I don't know how you're gonna do this". He says, "It'll just wipe them out". He was staggering around for half an hour after that.
Who could have guessed that, all this time, he was staggering around crippled with gut ache, developing a duodenal ulcer, the result of his food intolerances.
Well, he couldn't live like this any more either, which was why he was staggering around on an empty beach in the middle of winter like Lear on the heath.
At last the left hook reached Ali, who had wearied himself in the ninth, and soon he was staggering around the ring at a crazily reclining angle, like a surf-rider before he loses the board.
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"He was staggered, but he never fell.
He was staggered by the turn America has taken.
He was staggered at the bill, because there was a valid disc in the window.
But César Ramos, who voted yes, said he was staggered by the outcome of the vote.
Roger Taylor, the group's drummer, said yesterday he was staggered by the news.
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