The phrase "uncertain steps" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's hesitant or unsure movements or actions. For example: - The child took uncertain steps, afraid to cross the rickety bridge. - She approached the stage with uncertain steps, unsure if she was ready to give her speech. - The old man shuffled down the street with uncertain steps, his cane tapping the ground for support.
"I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young.
My father might die before his uncertain steps give way to immobility.
It was not the collapse of the Russian financial markets, or the dizzying leap in interest rates, or even the first uncertain steps of the country's new untested Government that worried Mr. Chernikh or his fellow directors.
Some of the jitters held the attention: for instance, the uncertain steps forward and backward that Monica Bill Barnes took in "She's Snapped, She Left," a solo in which she appeared to be trying to survive in the rat race of daily life.
But their energy now seemed to fade: they moved with uncertain steps, as though, on finding themselves amid those shards of scrap iron, they were suddenly seized by an awareness of their own nakedness; many of them folded their arms to cover their breasts as if shivering with cold.
Of the other works in bronze, "Man in the Dark" (1934), Beckmann's first sculpture, stands out for its depiction of a primitive-looking man in a togalike garment, hands held gropingly before him, blind-eyed face turned to one side, as he takes uncertain steps.
Rodriguez ultimately took a somewhat uncertain step across home plate before the ball arrived.
THE scene takes place on the Upper West Side of Manhattan between two brothers in search of their identities, caring for each other every awkward, uncertain step of the way.
Despairing of the efficacy of medicine and the usefulness of exertion, Nancy has dropped out of medical school; this sentimental journey to Mexico is meant as the first uncertain step in a new life.
"It was a very long and uncertain step from the establishment of X-ray crystallography to the application of it to large molecules," said Dr. Paul M. Doty, an emeritus professor of molecular biology at Harvard, who knew Dr. Perutz in Cambridge.
The need for validation re-introduces a costly, time-consuming and inherently uncertain step in using the result for development of therapeutics, a step that is obviated by identifying the genetic modifiers directly in humans.
