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Example sentences for: stumbled

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Archaeologists digging under the ruins of the residential palace of Roman tyrant Nero earlier this month stumbled on an astonishing find: a 10-foot-by-6-foot fresco, faded but almost completely intact.
In the end, he stumbled across a sale by a film collector and bought a print for $125.
There he lived in tranquil expectation of their first child until one day, a band of Civil War re-enactors stumbled into their yard in search of water.
In the interim, thousands of lightly armed troops from NATO countries stumbled around Bosnia in their U.N. blue helmets, trying to feed victims and stay out of harm's way.
What's appalling is rather that now that their heroes have stumbled, they have disowned them so utterly.