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How to use the word stumble in a Sentence?

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Every stumble is a step closer to mastery; perseverance paints the path.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
2 months ago

i got the fear deep inside breathing hard i run to avoid the glare the pain of the lights the stares intrude invade i stumble up the stairs avoid inquisitive eye contact the darker you are the harder you die and they don't never care – i need to rest

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

We've been through storms before... We've been through the Great Recession before, a lot of other people are going to stumble and fall.

Gary Friedman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I loved the fact that it’s the United States of America and you can just stumble onto these towns like this.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I feel like I was cheated, i had a little stumble in the last corner, but that was still a medal-worthy performance in my opinion.

Joey Mantia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s doubtful that it was merely a coincidence, merely a mentally disturbed, emotionally disturbed person who randomly chose a synagogue, this synagogue is in a residential area – you would have to find it. You wouldn’t stumble across it, and there are plenty of synagogues closer to the prison where ‘Lady Al Qaeda’ is being held.

David Grantham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The solutions are hand picked, so often when I have a choice between two words, I'll pick the one that I think the creator would think is more clever and folks would stumble upon.

Bill Jelen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The palmettos out there alone are enough to trip you up, when you're walking through them, when you you stumble through them, the mosquitos will carry you off, anybody out there more than a day without mosquito spray, you'd go insane with the bugs getting you and everything else.

Alan McEwen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Life Obstacles are same with Stepping Stones. You stamp on them and stumble; they become Obstacles in your path. But when you step on them and succeed; they serve as your Stepping Stones.

Niliflash

added by ValidVibes
2 years ago

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

added by ValidVibes
2 years ago

She'll stumble now and then but as long as she can get a grip where she is, she can get up, even though she's easy to care for, we watch her like a hawk every moment that we're awake.

Jennifer Hetterscheidt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In the current lockdown, many of us will likely be getting around to all those cleaning and DIY jobs people love to put off, but I doubt anyone would have expected to stumble across a bomb that has been quietly sitting in their roof for over a hundred years.

Charlie Bubear

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The IEA report is tempering any price rise that we might see from Tropical Storm Barry because the market continues to stumble under the weight of slowing economic growth.

Andy Lipow

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It was a tough week, he was feeling pretty good this morning. He was jumping and kicking. But the stumble hurt us a lot.

Jason Servis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

John Bolton's views on Iran are well known, if President Trump does not wish to stumble into a new and devastating military conflict, I hope that President Trump will listen to the counsel of other advisers and seek to reduce tensions.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Its something I shouldnt have done. We all stumble.

Robert Caret

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The list of things that I couldn’t do, or shouldn’t do, was much longer than the things that I was allowed to do, so there was a lot of conflict inside me, because at home my parents were constantly telling me that I should dream big, and shoot for the stars. And they put all these incredible role models in front of me like Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto and I was supposed to be like them. But the minute I stepped out of my home, I was told the exact opposite. That I was dreaming too big, that if I wouldn’t stop looking at the sky I would stumble and fall on my face.

Laila Shabir

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There's going to be times when you'll stumble off the track or think you don't want to continue.

Donald Kinsey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In the end, what 20,000 fans inside London's O2 Arena witnessed was me giving 100 percent effort but performing way below world level, for my fans, it must have been like going to support their favorite thoroughbred racehorse at the Grand National, only to see their stallion stumble out the gates like a sedated mule at the Donkey Derby.

Londoner Haye

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We will stumble and get lost, but we need not make a mistake of not retracing our steps.

Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
6 years ago

Blame me not for my failures, for thats natural, but surely do for my achievements thats I rarely stumble upon with no motive whatsoever to achieve!

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I don't think there are any traps that will be set, the question is whether he generates them on his own. And gets out of his own way. And there's no way to predict that. As carefully orchestrated and choreographed as these trips may be, there's always the possibility of a stumble or an inappropriate remark.

Aaron David Miller

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The myopic policy makers have no endgame. They stumble from one short-term fiscal or monetary stimulus to the next, despite overwhelming evidence that they only produce an ephemeral 'sugar high' and grow unproductive debt that impedes long-term growth, the chickens are now coming home to roost.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Arresting a foreign spy is the last option, you would rather turn them or watch who they are taking to, why did they decide to arrest this guy ? Did they think they would be about to return to Russia ? Was it because there was a risk that he was going to stumble across something important ?

Mark Galeotti

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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