He turned dully, and walked withstumbling steps to the door.
He dimly remembered stumbling through the snow-drifts and then falling asleep, overpowered by an irresistible and leaden drowsiness.
At that instant a lone remaining German plane wheeled in close and let fire at almost point blank range at the stumbling Catalina.
No more stumbling around hoping against hope, and meeting with defeat at every turn.
The fight ended with his stumbling and shooting forward under Fulk’s sword, where he lay like a red beetle, very flat and still.
We cannot help ourselves; we are but little people stumbling over the heather.
This spring-gun is made by setting a flattened bamboo spear against a bent sapling, fastened to a trigger in such a way that it is released by the passer-by stumbling against an invisible string stretched across a game-track.
Iroquois stumbling about, and the bear, with 100 men after him, scuttling in every direction.
At last, when the gnats seemed disposed to retire, two Germans came along, and, seeing our fire, commenced stumbling about our boards.
We turned and fled, running as hard as we could, looking fearfully back to see if we were pursued, stumbling over logs, and tearing our clothes on bushes.
He left Fletcher still looking for him, and on his way for'ard to pass the time with the Orphan, collided with the Pimple stumbling along from the bridge.
O'Neill, and would have given his soul to stay and see the end of this, found himself stumbling down the ladder from.
O'Neill's voice, and elbowed his way towards him, stumbling across something which he knew was a stretcher, but evidently not waking the man asleep on it.
It was quite dark now, the foc's'le and the turret below were invisible, and he had to grope his way along to find the guns' crews by hearing them talk or stumbling against them.
Stumbling into this resort of innocent youth under the belief that it was a saloon, he was summarily ejected by the police.
Stumbling along, he came upon the ice cream freezers and the lunch baskets.
The road lay up rocky hill and down stony vale; a tripping and stumbling dromedary had been substituted for the usual monture: the consequence was that we had either a totter or a tumble once per mile during the whole of that long night.
He appeared, however, to be their natural prey, and his quaint habit of stumbling innocently into all manner of blunders was a perpetual fount of amusement to the humour-loving Gauls.
I ducked and twisted away, stumbling down the last three or four steps, and landed on my feet, staggering back against the wall to regain my balance.
He rose without a further word and worked his way out the wide double doors, stumbling through the ficus forest as he struck a match to his cigar.
Which he did, though I could hear himstumbling around the room in the dark.
I recoiled stumbling again, this time over cans strewn across the linoleum.
As she hurried onward, stumbling now and then with a clumsiness alien to her, the sense of lying helpless in the grasp of this force almost drove her to cry out.
So he only dug his foot into the ground and gazed toward Lisbeth, who was now almost upon them, stumbling in her happy haste.
She only ran on, stumbling often and feeling for the matches in the bosom of her ugly gray cotton frock.
In the meantime Mrs. Brabant and the children had gone down into the coulee, Jeanne and Max stumbling along, scarcely awake enough to realize what was happening.
There was more variety and beauty in the surroundings than on the preceding day, but Walter, stumbling along the difficult shore and tugging at the tow-line, paid little attention to the scenery.
The stumbling block that prevented the execution of the original plan was--strangely enough--Russia.
The best of us are filled with the contrary vision of a democracy stumbling through every error till its institutions glow with justice and its customs shine with beauty.
On this, if one can find anything useful to say, it may be chiefly from the memory of the waste labour and pitiful stumbling in the dark which fill up so much of the travail that one is fain to call one's own education.
What to expect he knew not, whether the dead man walking, or the official ministers of human justice, or some chance witness blindly stumbling in to consign him to the gallows.
I must be ever stumbling on, a carouser of life in a mirk and sodden lane.
A long black coat hampered his movements, and he looked gawky enough, stumbling through the rushes.
He was without steel or stick, stumbling on the causeway-stones in a stupor of weariness, his mouth gasping and his coat torn wellnigh off the back of him.
Two other points of doctrine which in the same connection Schwenckfeld censures in the strongest terms as real stumbling blocks in ethics, are the preaching of predestination and the denial of free-will.
Then came the sound of stumbling footsteps, retreating, and again silence.
Vance just kept firing, dull thunks into the figure stumbling backward as the H&K machine pistol erupted spasmodically into the hot, dry air.
There was a gasp from the gawking tourists, and the crowd began stumbling backward for cover.
Money is so much an accepted convenience in practice that it has become a great stumbling block in theory.
Howls emanated from little Paul Laurent, who could be seen stumbling across the road, one blue, cold hand poking the tears out of his eyes and the other holding the seat of his breeches.
Our party now numbered nine and we pushed off, stumbling through uneven lanes in the centre of dimly lit ruins.
He saw Lieutenant Bowling get up from the ground, his face white with pain, and go stumbling ahead with a bullet in his shoulder.
After stumbling over the uneven floor in a darkened passage for some minutes, we entered a small room where several officers were gathered around a table on which two burning candles were stuck in bottles.
And hurrying, stumblingthrough the street Came the hurrying stumbling feet.
With a speed which seemed remarkable for one of her age she ran up the stairs, stumbling and sobbing as she went.
Slowly they climbed the incline, the pony slipping and stumbling as the sand crumbled away from under his feet.
There was a sound in the street at last, but it was not of one man's stumbling feet, but of many.
There was a rattling at the door-latch just then and loud voices outside, and as the old men looked, young Dan Bogan came stumbling into the shop.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stumbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: faltering; halting; hesitating; maladroit; obstacle; stammering; stuttering
