stumble
Example Sentences
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The “Romeo and Juliet” director’s research team stumbled upon this unseen footage in an underground salt mine in Kansas while making the 2022 biopic starring Austin Butler.
From Los Angeles Times
I stumbled backward, retreating behind the cover of a bookcase.
From Literature
She stumbled sideways, throwing us out into the open, and I fought to keep my balance without losing my grip.
From Literature
And should the RedHawks stumble in the MAC tournament, a decision to exclude them with a single defeat would be unheard of.
Most employees acquire those skills over time—by learning from their nonwork relationships, watching how colleagues behave in the office, and by seeing what happens when they stumble in their own workplace interactions.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
