Example sentences for: stumbling

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

  • But Turkey had taken a great, stumbling stride towards 'modernity,' towards the unprotected free-market economy which the European Union enforces on nations hoping to join it."

  • It said the 17 th karmapa, a 14-year-old boy, crossed the Himalayas on foot with four attendants before stumbling into Dharamsala, the Indian seat in exile of the Dalai Lama, Wednesday.

  • A people so justifiably famous for hospitality, politeness, and respect also produced an army whose brutality during its occupation of Southeast Asia during the war remains a stumbling block to “normal” international relations.

  • FEMA got nothing but brickbats for its slow and stumbling performance in the aftermath of 1992's Hurricane Andrew.

  • In the wee, wee hours it’s populated by a sometimes motley mix of early-morning newspaper sellers, streetsweepers, and bar hounds stumbling back to their apartments and hotels.


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