stumble across
Example Sentences
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Outsiders would sometimes stumble across the Rocket Lab community and be swept up in its orbit.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
“I often fantasized that one day my dad would stumble across my face on a magazine cover and be overcome with regret for not getting to know such a wonderful girl,” writes Ione Skye.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025
Come May in Seattle, you can’t help but stumble across flowers bursting out of every yard.
From Seattle Times • May 18, 2024
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
We stumble across seven abandoned pay phones in some ditch, underneath a highway leading north toward the Queensboro Bridge.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
