blunder upon
Example Sentences
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Finally, after piling blunder upon blunder for four months, the public relations team at got something right.
From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2012
We most earnestly desire to avoid them but we never see them until they strike us, until in the darkness of our ignorance we blunder upon them.
From Self-Development and the Way to Power by Rogers, L. W. (Louis William)
Some men would have maimed their chance, if not spoiled the game, by jumping up with hot interruption, and hurriedly exposed the blunder upon which Dillon had stumbled.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 by Various
The board system is well adapted to secure deliberation, but not promptness and unity of action nor responsibility, because one member may easily shift the responsibility for an error or blunder upon his colleagues.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford
What Botello prophesied concerning Narvaez, is very remarkable; yet, when a man is prognosticating all his life, it is hard if he do not sometimes blunder upon the truth.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery
