The Indian led, pulling at the end of a rope; Grant strained at the sled and hoarsely encouraged the dogs; Cantwell stumbled and lurched in the rear like an unwilling prisoner.
After a while he stumbled and fell, then, the cool snow being grateful to his face, he sprawled there motionless until Mort dragged him to the sled.
The lake was a very secluded sheet of water hidden away between the mountains, not marked on the map, whose very existence was unsuspected by me until I had a few days before accidentally stumbled upon it.
Billy Grant stumbledback to his bed and fell in with a sort of groan.
The Chief, blinded by his lantern, had stumbled into the pit where a floor plate had been lifted.
Then you knew she was coming," Lucy said, an uneasy thought flashing across her mind as she remembered the picnic, and the scene she had stumbled upon.
Bill Sandersen dismounted to find out, and dismounting, he stumbled across a soft, inert mass in the path.
In spite of his care, he stumbled over a loose rock as he struck the ground and rolled flat on his back.
As he spoke, he sprung forward to grasp the bridle of Algernon's horse; but stumbled and fell, and the beast passed over him, unfortunately though without doing him any injury.
Yet my spirits rose with a great bound at sight of it; for I knew that I had stumbled on the place I sought.
The Captain stumbled into the room, swearing afresh.
Slowly, painfully, through the darkness and drifted snow, with teeth clenched to keep back the groans which the pain of his foot was forcing from him, Kalman stumbled along.
The air was thick, and the road difficult to find, but we stumbled along without a word, until reaching an old fence, where Torrence suddenly stopped.
I got up and stumbled on, hoping to escape it, and find an outlet to the open air, wondering at the same time if the alley led to a nest, or general rendezvous of these extraordinary creatures.
She stumbledand fell to her knees before the window.
One red-letter evening she stumbled upon a pamphlet in her brother's room describing the horrors of venereal diseases and outlining with verbal and pictorial illustrations the ravages wrought by the disease germs.
His hands lost their power, and, dropping the bundle, the unhappy Eugene stumbled over it in a manner painfully ignoble.
But only the sound of Sadie's convulsive sobbing answered him as she stumbled from the room.
She stumbled around until she found a sort of bed in one corner, and sat down on it, breathless and wet.
While a member of the Sixteenth was searching for wood in the yard of a residence after dark, he stumbled over what he supposed to be soldiers asleep on the ground.
Excusing himself he went on and after gathering an armful of wood, was returning when he stumbled over the same men again.
His nobbly fist caught Wafa under the jaw, and the man stumbled and fell.
He had stumbled upon Peaceful Valley by accident, coming to it from a fashionable resort to escape an intrigue with a foolish grande dame and consequent irate husband.
The moon scarce showed it; and Chip, almost exhausted, stumbled over stones and felt that she was becoming lost in an unsettled country.
And yet when I recall the night I stumbled into their camp, how Mrs. Frisbie dressed me in her own clothes, shared her tent with me, and even prayed for me, I feel ashamed to think of what I have done.
The old man stumbled out of the tower, rushed through the churchyard, and ran home, never looking behind him till he reached his door.
I stumbled over the water-worn stones, and splashed into water.
We must have stumbled into a big party coming up the river from the south.
Balthus stumbledafter him and somewhat dazedly crawled into the canoe.
With a scorching oath Conan wheeled and dashed back the way he had come, and the Aquilonian stumbled bewilderedly after him.
Balthus stumbled after him, guiding himself by feeling the dense wall on either hand.
He felt that even before his arrival at Atalissa he had stumbled upon a real clue and he hoped upon a worthy aid in the doughty southern sheriff.
Bob half stumbledon a stick and the noise brought the quick baying of a hound.
Once Helen stumbled against something that felt cold even through the leather of her shoe, and she shuddered.
She did not notice his coming and presently he stumbled slightly against her.
Ghyka stumbled on as heavily as if the mountain was pressing on his bosom with all its weight.
Suddenly Michael directed his flight towards a field of wheat, when his horse stumbled and fell with him.
As the party drove on they stumbled upon a little native boy lying fast asleep beneath the shade of a magnificent banksia.
He stumbled and fell, accidentally catching hold of a rope with both hands in his fall.
They stumbled every now and then over great cracks in the ground, or got entangled in the hidden grass below the water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stumbled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
