stumble across

Example Sentences

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If you're worried a relative might stumble across the item they'd bought you while they bargain hunt you can always donate to a charity shop outside of your local area.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025

Occasionally, I stumble across food safety headlines that make me do a double-take because they are lauding a measure that seems like it should have been standardized long ago.

From Salon • May 1, 2024

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

That eventually you'd just stumble across the clue you needed to find the Jade Key?

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline