An embarrassing mistake

Usage examples of blunder.

Creating Pygmalion without establishing a check on his ability to assume power had been a gross blunder.

Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.

He had, in fact, crossed the designs of no less a power than the German Empire, he had blundered into the hot focus of Welt-Politik, he was drifting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop silently, swiftly, and on an immense scale the great discoveries of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire of the world.

Something along those lines would just be a perpetuation of the blunder that opened the door to Argan in the first place.

I saw the gigantic forms of my two great auks, followed by their chicks, blundering past in a shower of spray, driving headlong out into the ocean.

So Vetch had to blunder through on his own, with common sense, what he learned from Baken, and what he overheard from the trainers.

The Biter men were greatly expert at his game, and frisked about like rats where he could only blunder in the dark.

He guessed he was a few paces north of Morris, but Hakeswill did not want to risk being ambushed by a tiger-striped soldier as he blundered about in search of his Captain and so he stayed put.

Learning, it blundered into the barrier wall and tumbled back into a cloud of lifted Stardust.

The lifeless optelectronic brains of the berserkers never blundered, but sometimes they were forced to make decisions based on inadequate information.

Their alien smell filled the room, until Sunbright felt like some fly blundered into a spiderweb.

Ox blundered into a golem that clamped his ankles and tangled his feet.

Niccolini feared that His Holiness and the Holy Office, having made a great show of dragging Galileo to their doorstep, would not admit to having blundered by arresting an innocent man.

They usually blundered around in the area between the fences until the early morning sun or an SO-17 flame-thrower reduced their lifeless husk to a cinder, and released the tormented soul to make its way through eternity in peace.

She is as true as steel, but no one can see them together as I have done for months, and as you have done too, without knowing them to be the most mis-matched pair that ever blundered into marriage.