The phrase "unsteady steps" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone walking in a shaky or unstable manner, often due to fear, injury, or intoxication.
Example: "After the long journey, she took unsteady steps as she tried to regain her balance."
Alternatives: "wobbly steps" or "unstable steps."
Roach can see it, the unsteady steps, the way "they're feeling for the floor but they're not sure it's there".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
No coach would want to introduce a player into these conditions for fear his unsteady first steps led to disaster.
