Example sentences for: stumbling

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

  • Scripps essentially got lucky--after stumbling on the concept of using "retransmission rights" as a bargaining chip--and its boomer-friendly content took off, once aired.

  • It's not that anything has actually changed at The New Yorker in recent weeks, but there is a perception that Brown and the magazine are stumbling.

  • Toward the end of his life, he wrote: If egotism for a moment is pardonable, no false shame deters me from avowing that, though I have lived away from America upwards of forty-six years, I feel, to this hour, in writing English, that I am writing a foreign language, and that, if not incessantly on my guard, I am in peril of stumbling.

  • 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.

  • The cover story calls CIA Director George Tenet an energetic, clever, and appealingly iconoclastic leader but questions his--or anyone's--ability to reform the stumbling agency.


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