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Example sentences for "blundered"

Lexicographically close words:
bluing; bluish; blunder; blunderbuss; blunderbusses; blunderer; blunderers; blundering; blunderingly; blunders
  1. When he woke, numb, cramped, and cold, he found to his horror that in the night and darkness he had blundered on into the Valley of Thunder, into which no living soul had ever before advanced.

  2. At corners the shoes always turned in the right direction, and if Bobo forgot and blundered on the wrong way, the shoes swiftly began to pinch his toes.

  3. They blundered out, locked together like fighting beasts, and behind them the door crashed to, leaving them in darkness.

  4. Guy blundered to his feet with shuddering effort.

  5. A dark pile of building stood before her, and she blundered towards it, not seeing in the least where she was going.

  6. And is it Burke Ranger's farm that I've blundered into after all?

  7. He blundered into the Cimmerian as the latter stopped dead, and rebounded from his brawny shoulders as though from an iron statue.

  8. He blundered against the bushes on each side of the trail.

  9. Long before Harcourt reached his law-office, he was satisfied that he had blundered foolishly, and done Miss Martell great injustice.

  10. In my haste that night I blundered into a place where I had no right to be.

  11. From the rim of the caƱon, between Flattop and Hallett, I viewed the spot where I had blundered over the edge of the snow-cornice on the way to the dance.

  12. If it is true that the British blundered in allowing the Germans to escape from a trap from which escape should have been impossible, it is equally true that the Germans blundered in allowing themselves to be caught in such a trap.

  13. Yes; she blundered into it before she knew what she was saying, and betrayed herself; and then, when I questioned her, she had to tell me.

  14. He had blundered into that foolish comparison of the two girls without giving a thought to its possible significance.

  15. Whereat Madame gurgled in momentary appreciation of her own wit, because verree means "a tumblerful," and she had blundered on a first-rate pun.

  16. He believed he had blundered on a means of discomfiting the rascally secretary, and, that laudable object once attained, the path was clear for his own love making.

  17. Then Mr. Bob had blundered in on her hiding-place, followed by Hinpoha.

  18. Sahwah must have blundered into that road in the darkness, we concluded, and thought she was going after us.

  19. Billy blundered and blundered; took the wrong turning up the crooked lane, kept Wanley windmill on the left instead of the right, and finally rode right into the village of Rothley, and then began asking his way.

  20. In the thick mists the greater part of the fleet blundered into Hudson's Straits, yet did not realize that they had found a passage into the heart of Canada.

  21. On the occasion of a similar hunt a ray blundered fatally because of the steeper incline of the beach.

  22. But he blundered again, and this time fatally.

  23. Run down in the night by a British liner that blundered into the fighting in trying to blunder out.

  24. The essential fact of the politics of the age in which Bert Smallways lived--the age that blundered at last into the catastrophe of the War in the Air--was a very simple one, if only people had had the intelligence to be simple about it.

  25. He ran, stumbling because of the uncertainty of the darkness, blundered into his guards as they turned to run with him.

  26. His foot blundered against something soft, he heard a hoarse scream under foot.

  27. She professed to have lost her sister, she blundered needlessly into him he thought, caught hold of him and laughed.

  28. He was thrust against the wall, and a number of people blundered past him.

  29. So he blundered in and heavily up the stair, and after knocking thunderously, entered.

  30. Other similar gangs blundered at one time or another and left loopholes through which the police were able to attack them and break them up.

  31. I had heard Rayne mention him, and no doubt he was a member of the gang who had blundered and fallen into the hands of the police.

  32. Through what dark corners of despair had he blundered in these last days!

  33. At the time when Judge Massingale, by a trick of fate, had blundered upon the acquaintance of Dore Baxter, he had arrived at that satisfactory station in life when he could look upon himself as a perfectly disciplined being.

  34. Nuttall blundered to the end of the avenue, and round the corner of it, and there ran into Pitt, alone, toiling with a wooden spade upon an irrigation channel.

  35. He perceived that he had blundered tactically in attempting to reduce the agreed share.

  36. A small child came running from a doorway behind me, and blundered against my legs.

  37. At the third attempt he blundered right against it, and flung an arm over one of the flukes, next a leg, and in a trice we were hauling up, hand over hand.

  38. My own feelings at the time are a mystery to me; I blundered on, with a blow here and a blow there, till I hit this woman in a vital spot, and achieved the above mentioned result.

  39. They blundered over it, but they came very near succeeding.

  40. There was no way of seeing the trail in the darkness, and he blundered on, paying thrice the ordinary exertion for all that he accomplished.

  41. To cap it, the mule blundered off the trail and fell, throwing rider and gripsack out upon the rocks.

  42. What was there left to do, for one who had blundered so miserably?

  43. The man also proudly displayed a bleeding scalp which he had ripped from the head of one of Lapierre's scouts who had blundered upon the old man as he lay concealed behind a snow-covered log.

  44. Statesmen who have dealt cleverly with nations have blundered sadly in their dealings with individual men, blundered sometimes when their mistakes would react upon their national influence.

  45. Why had he submitted to things, blundered into things?

  46. Luck, the ledger clerk, blundered against Polly and said, "Help him!


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blundered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.