faltering

[Boris Tatarenko]

Do my sentences sound good?

1) His faltering deeds drive me crazy.
2) I'm so tired. I feel my legs faltering.
3) A speaker provided several faltering arguments. It seemed like he had no idea what he was talking about.

I tried to show three different meaning of the word.
Thanks.

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

 

[Rover_KE]

Only #2 sounds anything like natural to me.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I don't even care for #2.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm not keen on any of them. The main use is in things like "He took several faltering steps towards the building".

 

[MikeNewYork]

My horse came out of the gate in first place, but he faltered in the home stretch.

 

[emsr2d2]

A good example of "faltered" but the thread title and all the examples were for "faltering".

 

[MikeNewYork]

Then just change the tense -- he was faltering in the home stretch.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I tried to show three different meaning of the word.

May I know in what dictionaries you found those meanings?

 

[Raymott]

I don't have problem with any of those sentences in the right context.
An argument can certainly falter. Deeds can falter - though you'd need to know more about him to know what his 'faltering deeds' were.
I can only think that the objections are on stylistic grounds.

 

[Tdol]

The first one sounds odd to me because it is mixing registers- I think that a person who talks of someone's faltering deeds wouldn't pair it up with something like drive me crazy.