Thesaurus / stumbling

stumbling

How to use stumbling in a sentence

He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.

The lowing of cattle and the soft stumbling tread of many unshod feet told him that some one was approaching.

How I do wish sometimes to give Ritchie a jog, when there is some stumbling-block that he sticks fast at.

This design reveals a stumbling-block that superficial people fall over.

At this critical moment feet were heard clattering and stumbling up the stair as if in tremendous haste.

Locating it would have been comparable to stumbling upon a solitary blade of grass, imbedded in ice at the South Pole.

She heard him stumbling along the passage, heard the house door shut, and heard him pass by the window with a hurried step.

SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND

She ran toward them, stumbling in a ludicrous fashion amidst the boulders, and then stopped a few yards away and gazed at Ida.

THE GOLD TRAILHAROLD BINDLOSS

The heart speaks eloquently in symbols first, and afterwards in stumbling words.

They stepped slowly and carefully, picking their footing, yet now and then stumbling on some unseen boulder.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985