"unsteady step" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase often used to metaphorically describe lacking confidence or wavering on a decision. For example, "He took an unsteady step forward, unsure of what the future held."
A wall of police guarded the entrance to platform two with instructions to turn away those of glazed eye and unsteady step.
I placed my foot on the same unsteady step that I had traveled upon 18 years prior.
In the second round, Ramirez capitalized on an unsteady step by the 36-year-old Abraham, rocking him with a sudden punch to the face that left the champion wobbled and so out of sorts seconds later at the bell that he began walking to the wrong corner.
But he was also the protector of those sick with "unsteady step, trembling limbs, limping knees, bent fingers and hands, paralysed hands, lameness, crookedness, and withering body".
In one of my favorite sections, a series of jittery, rising two-note motifs convey the unsteady steps of the hikers as they traverse a glacier.
Roach can see it, the unsteady steps, the way "they're feeling for the floor but they're not sure it's there".
Dr. Sasaki, who believed that the enemy had hit only the building he was in, got bandages and began to bind the wounds of those inside the hospital; while outside, all over Hiroshima, maimed and dying citizens turned their unsteady steps toward the Red Cross Hospital to begin an invasion that was to make Dr. Sasaki forget his private nightmare for a long, long time.
In one of her masterpieces, "Untitled (7)," the rural landscape seems bathed in the lowering and eerie radiance of an eclipse, and the misshapen figures of her brain-damaged subjects — descendants of Goya's gargoyles — march across the frame with unsteady steps as if to the music of a piper one can't hear.
He took a few unsteady steps toward them and then collapsed into their arms.
So, at first, I wrote only in Russian, but later, I took shaky and unsteady steps as a child does in English.
Co-written with Marc Gilmore The Federal Housing Finance Agency's recent announcement that it would bar Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from reducing principal for borrowers at risk of foreclosure has brought attention to an almost certain means to fix an economy that over the past few years has taken halting, unsteady steps towards recovery.
