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stumble
verb as in slip, stagger
verb as in happen upon
Example Sentences
He said when he was walking he was stumbling slightly and after the pandemic he could not get upstairs and suffered with abdominal pains and cramps.
While Roman stumbles through life without Rocky, Dennis dreads the realization that his lies may undo everything.
Who knows, you could stumble into a 2015 romantic comedy and find that your new best friend is the only other person in the theater, laughing at all of the same jokes.
There’s a scene in the movie, taken from real life, where Springsteen is flipping through the channels one night and stumbles upon Terrence Malick’s “Badlands,” a movie that ultimately influences “Nebraska.”
They were equals and equally at home with his style, and the movement put the moving on, the “drifting like a leaf,” “feeling like a shadow,” stumbling “like a blind man,” in revealing relief.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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