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Example sentences for: stumbled

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' The Germans, however, stumbled upon hope - fully because they wanted a word for their own hoffentlich , admittedly a useful word; so hopefully was soon being used in a quite different sense, viz. to mean `it is to hoped.
NASA's scientists have a better understanding of what they are doing in exploring Mars than … Columbus had when he sailed westwards to find the East Indies and stumbled on to the Americas.
Someone else eventually would have stumbled onto the same formula.
Returning to Brazil in 1502, he convinced himself that Columbus and he had in fact stumbled onto some continent--a New World he called it-- completely unknown to Europeans.
Tudjman became a nationalist before it was fashionable; Milosevic stumbled into nationalism in the late '80s when it was convenient.)