How to Use falter in a Sentence

falter

1 of 2 verb
  • Her steps began to falter.
  • The business was faltering due to poor management.
  • Their initial optimism has faltered.
  • How could France’s beloved icon falter like that?
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • If tech falters, so does the rest of the market.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • If the party’s old guard falters, look out.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Without it, even the best tools will falter.
    — Carl D'halluin, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Yet both faltered in the final month of the season.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But, as talks have publicly faltered in the past week, both sides have launched fresh strikes.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 6 June 2026
  • Jansen has yet to falter and keeps cashing in on one-year deals as a result.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But there was one front on which the king’s confidence faltered.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Here are three top-seeded teams that could falter early.
    — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • How the mighty Robot has faltered.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But here, even Starlink has faltered.
    — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Scott faltered in his first year, but the Dodgers will entrust him to be their set-up man.
    — Katie Woo, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • If the Panthers falter, this is a team to watch in the East.
    — James Mirtle, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But even the best tools will falter if they're deployed in a vacuum.
    — Rhon Daguro, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Once again Israelis didn’t falter.
    — Ron Scherf, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His quick wit, however, did not falter.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Where one element is absent, the whole project tends to falter.
    — Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • If all four voted against the bills, the coalition’s efforts could falter.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • If the offense falters in a game where the defense gives up more long balls, no game is a given.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Diplomatic efforts aimed at a more durable peace have faltered.
    — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 17 May 2026
  • But things began to falter in 2022.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Gen Z grew up watching systems falter.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Confidence falters as the moon meets Venus.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Soon after, though, that focus faltered.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2026
  • This is the area where many PC OEMs falter.
    — Marco Chiappetta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Late in games, in particular, his command had seemed to falter the most.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The performance has faltered in all three phases.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025

falter

2 of 2 noun
  • Lee falter in his steady volume of fire and succumb to his wounds.
    — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Why, then, does the pulse of the narrative falter in the second half?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 July 2018
  • But jobs could be in jeopardy if business falters, critics say.
    — C. J. Hughes, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • But there's a wild beauty to more than match the narrative's falters.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2017
  • With small donors, success can breed success, but a falter on the trail can touch off a cash crisis.
    — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • But, if the bull case for the beloved stock falters, that could spell trouble for the broader benchmark.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The signal may be strong enough to log on but the low bandwidth falters the deeper into the app one goes.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • As men shout and jeer, her confident smile falters, replaced by a troubled frown.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 20 July 2023
  • When economies falter, cyclical stocks tend to do poorly early in the downturn.
    — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Even when state or federal governments falter, trust can still be forged.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The current local production aims high on all counts — but falters.
    — Joanne Ostrow, The Know, 14 Apr. 2017
  • As private-sector job growth falters, the clamor for quotas builds.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
  • And, when stock markets falter, gold has been sought in the past as a haven, pushing the price of gold up whilst all other prices fall.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • When the jet stream falters, that polar air can make its way south, sometimes as far as the Gulf Coast.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2017
  • His homecoming could mean more to Jaguars fans eager to see their team falter in its final two games.
    — Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Just look at measles and polio, which resurge as soon as vaccination efforts falter.
    — Nükhet Varlik, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Vaccines prevent disease but falter to limit the spread of Delta.
    — Michael Mina, Time, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The familiar debates of our time rage as the snow falls, the food runs out and the electricity falters.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2020
  • That message is a tougher sell while the frenzy in digital assets cools and markets falter.
    — Francesca Fontana, WSJ, 18 June 2022
  • The second can be hard to contemplate, when health falters and medical crises can change lives in an instant.
    — Liz Weston, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2017
  • Here are 10 leading candidates to take those two slots (and more, if one or more of the front-runners falters).
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2019
  • When a leader’s circadian rhythm is disrupted, both their brain and body falter.
    — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The rest of the film drags, the pacing falters, and the story inches toward a mediocre conclusion.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
  • The hottest team in the league at the moment and ready to make a play for home-field advantage if New England falters.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2019
  • And today, outside groups are building pressure with grassroots activists to not let the issue falter.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Or will the sport continue to revolve around Alabama even if the other top programs falter?
    — Christopher Smith, al, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The Nasdaq is holding up its end this morning even as Tesla shares falter pre-market on recall news.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 June 2021
  • And when discretionary spending falters, that could spell trouble for the broader economy.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • If military support for Ukraine falters, the consequences will be dire for Europe and the rest of the world.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The stock market rally could be in trouble here as tech falters, and traders at Barclays think investors should protect themselves.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 4 June 2026

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