Example sentences for: stumble

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

  • Someone with a limp was likely to be called some variation of Zoppo (lame), Torti , or Storti (torto twisted), Gamba or Gambaccini (gamba leg), or Ciampa (ciampare to stumble).

  • Near the bus station, you might stumble across the musical septet “Los Pinos” jamming in the street, just out of reach of kids playing stickball.

  • His capacity for gloom had ever equalled his capacity for work, but he could never have foreseen his worst musings out-galloped by the campaign of 1996, a broken-backed stumble in which no error was too small to convert into an enormous problem.

  • Those nostalgic for the old days might want to pick up a guayabera, the classic Cuban pleated, four-pocket shirt, worn untucked (occasionally you can even stumble across vintage linen versions).

  • The Wall Street Journal reports that the National Federation of the Blind is demanding that Disney pull the plug on its planned Christmas release of a Mr. Magoo movie (starring Leslie Nielsen), saying that bringing Magoo back implies that "it's funny to watch an ill-tempered and incompetent blind man stumble into things and misunderstand his surroundings."


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