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)

A lone object in the vast darkness, there was not a chance in a hundred for them to blunder upon him.

From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

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

Labienus, the ablest of them, had but to desert Caesar, to commit blunder upon blunder, and to ruin the cause to which he attached himself.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony