It is seldom enough, in this dull every-day world, one stumbles on such an incident ready made to one's hands, and needing only to be described as one sees it.
It gives no them direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.
Blunted and stolid he stumbles through life for whom its harp-strings vainly quiver.
He stumbles in going, and can hardly from nervousness keep his balance on the none too secure elevation.
She stumbles into the chair by the bed, and, throwing her loose sleeves over her head, rocks herself and moans.
She gets out of bed and takes several steps toward the garden doorway; she totters and sways, then, turning, stumbles back to the bed for support.
Painfully reaching the top of this eminence, Roland stumbles and falls across a Saracen, who has been feigning death to escape capture.
Such is his weakness, however, that he stumbles and falls dead, face to the ground, before he can fulfil his kindly intention.
Prying open the monster's lips to force him to speak, Wainamoinen stumbles and accidentally falls into the huge maw and is swallowed alive.
Starting up, she stumbles in the tissue and sinks upon it.
Tis good, for now I hear a foot that stumbles Along the stable-roof against the hall.
In which the Author stumbles upon an old acquaintance.
The one stumbles beholders accidentally, the other pleads them into the snare.
She goes but softly, but she goeth sure, She stumbles not, as stronger creatures do.
Sheppard Lee stumbles upon a happy man, and quarrels with him.
My much-esteemed colleague of the court-martial, Colonel Hobart, stumbles up in the thick darkness to pay his respects.
He stumbles often, and once has even fallen from sheer exhaustion.
In his effort to rise, he stumbles clumsily over a small dark object upon the floor, close beside the bed.
When Israel was come out of Egypt, you know how manystumbles they had before they got to Canaan.
He bends over her, then stumblesto the door, ANNE following.
But see how melancholy rises now, Dimly uplifting her belated beam, The blank unwelcome round of the red moon, And gives so bad a light, that every step 20 One stumbles 'gainst some crag.
With gropingly tenacious faith he stumblestoward this hinted adjudication.
Stunned by this shock, Pierre Lanier gropingly stumbles along the Thames bank, following the drifting boat.
The present sinner, when he least expects, Snug-cornered somewhere i' the Basilicate, Stumbles upon his death by violence.
At last he rises, and, With empty scrutiny, feet that understand No path but falter at random, stumbles out Where tigrish winds whirry and havoc and shout.
Lurching in unsteady flight Comes a lean bat, singing shrill, Stumbles on my window sill, And staggers off into the night.
More than occasionally he is over-ingenious and over-anxious to reduce chaos to order; sometimes he almost loses his faithful reader in the maze he treads so easily and confidently, and sometimes he stumbles badly.
With no kind of critical tradition to chasten him, his force is often misguided and his work shapeless; but he stumbles into many splendours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stumbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
