Example sentences for: bumbling

How can you use “bumbling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the campaign front, pundits continue to express pity for the bumbling Gore and awe at the seemingly invincible George W.

  • We mill around in the dark among the machines, some of which emit fanfares, drumrolls, or gusts of melody, so that between the bumbling and waiting-to-try and noise, we feel much as we might in a video arcade.

  • When it came up against serious competition, in the form of Intuit, it was just another bumbling competitor, hardly worth the Antitrust Division's time.

  • The Republicans' bumbling on campaign finance reform shows they're a party that "could screw up a one-car funeral" (Robert Novak, CNN's Capital Gang ). First, GOP leaders squashed the bill in the most underhanded way possible, and now they're trying to take credit for reviving it.

  • "Cheech & Chong bumbling about in Philip Marlowe's gumshoes," writes Rita Kempley of the Washington Post . The negative spin: Like other Coen films, this one is clever but rambling and undisciplined.


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