Example Sentences

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Fumbled the ball away on a strip-sack later in the first half.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Poppy, the waitress and single mother in Alexa Martin’s Fumbled, redoes her own kitchen with the help of Pinterest and free classes at the local Home Depot:

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2020

Fumbled it, fanned on it, and it came off my post.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2019

Fumbled snaps, 4th-down conversions, questionable throws, actual fumbles that should have been recovered by the Giants, you name it, the drive had it all.

From Golf Digest • Dec. 2, 2018

Fumbled for her sunglasses in the mesh bag she carried and put them on.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart