Example sentences for: stumbling

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

  • Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.

  • While it is certainly possible that a box of Cracker Jack might be for sale in a remote Central American jungle, I submit that the chances of finding one are no greater than stumbling upon, say, a Zagnut bar.

  • This kind of contextual sensitivity (a sensitivity that is as yet not sufficiently well understood) is far more important than that sort of abstract knowledge of the proper use of language that prompts certain of us to shiver at someone else's stumbling over a shibboleth.

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

  • To present-day eyes, expressions of extreme female modesty seem subversive, a stumbling block to the sane ordering of human affairs.


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