fumbling

Example Sentences

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"And, of course, the key to solving a problem is to understand why it's gone wrong. Otherwise, you're just fumbling in the dark."

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

As I followed a patrol of federal agents around New York City’s Chinatown during their fumbling attempted raid in mid-October last year, I noticed something curious.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2026

In the previously uncollected poems we find Heaney working out forms, responding to social occasions, sometimes fumbling or biding his time but always doing the digging with his pen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

One practitioner wraps hot, damp towels around my feet while the other is at my head, fumbling a bit with my loc’d hair before getting it in the right position for the work.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

If there had been any irons aboard, they would have been occupied by the fumbling landlubber or scurvy swab who forgot his duties and made Dad miss the mooring.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey