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'stumble' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'stumble' with 9 example sentences.


stumble noun

: an unsteady uneven gait

: an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

stumble verb

: walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly

: miss a step and fall or nearly fall

: encounter by chance

: make an error


  • The horse must have stumbled and have toppled the knight.
  • The kid stumbled and fell to his knees.
  • Don't stumble over the rock.
  • In early times, inventions were often stumbled upon by accident.
  • Yesterday I stumbled across a copy of my father's family register.
  • She stumbled over a wheelbarrow.
  • I stumbled across this problem when I was working on something else.
  • He stumbled but quickly got up on his feet again.
  • The group of clowns begin stumbling as they ran.
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