Example sentences for: stumble

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

  • Merely wandering the streets of Havana, Santiago, or Trinidad, you’re likely to stumble across a party with a live band, or even a back alley where some impromptu jamming is going on.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • "We've got to reduce the liability of lawyers willing to engage in pro bono, in much the same way the Good Samaritan Law protects doctors who stumble onto accidents and provide care," said Mr. Rooney, who is also a general practice partner in Rooney, Mannicci & Gardner LLC of Bethlehem, Pa.

  • We will wake up at noon, stumble over to the keyboard in our pajamas, hammer out 1,000 words, and then--without talking to a single bothersome editor--make our work available to all data brokers.


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