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 shall certainly be pursued, and although our foes cannot see us well in the dark, some out of their number are likely to blunder upon us.

From The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

Because I don't blunder upon the woman I wish to marry, but pick her out, that's no reason I can't and won't love her.

From Taken Alive by Roe, Edward Payson

Sir Roger L'Estrange says that ``it is one thing to forget a matter of fact, and another to blunder upon the reason of it.''

From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

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