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

Chance again favoured my unlucky friend, who, however, made blunder upon blunder, and secured points as though he wanted to lose.

From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper

An unobserving person, still seeking the key to their intimacy, could easily blunder upon the old bromide and repeat that a pretty woman invariably prefers a plain one for a foil.

From Winner Take All by Evans, Larry

They heaped blunder upon blunder, and held him up to ridicule with all the wealth of invective characteristic of the learned controversy of the age.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)

Of course, if he set out with such an error he will accumulate blunder upon blunder.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene