stumble across

Example Sentences

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"And if you can stumble across a photo that represents the music and the lyrics, it's really romantic and amazing."

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

Spend enough time scrolling online, and you’re bound to stumble across a photo of a mega-rest stop in Breezewood, Pennsylvania.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025

At one point, when asked if he brought classified material from the West Wing or Naval Observatory to his lake house in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden quipped about what someone in the home might stumble across:

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2024

While you may stumble across a host of unknown and familiar plants at a food forest, at this Tacoma park, you know exactly what you’ll find: blueberries.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Then I stand back up, lean left, right, backward, and then wobble and stumble across home.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner