stumbling

Example Sentences

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There’s the kind of choosing to be a liberal and then stumbling into it.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

Perhaps it should be emphasized that the company does not in fact specialize in farce, since the sight of Orpheus stumbling through a mental ward clutching his dead wife’s red shoe was fairly funny.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

“The state bar case was once a stumbling block, but today it is a stepping stone,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

This year's summit could fall on any number of stumbling blocks.

From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026

Before I could explain, however, a booming sound shook the mountain, sending bits of rock clattering down and the two of us stumbling.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia