Kind of bum

Usage examples of stumble.

The automated exploration vehicle has stumbled on a strike that looks like it may be one of the biggest finds in the history of lunar exploration.

Taverik wanted to balk, shout to his father for help, sit down and refuse to move-but somehow his stiff knees bent and he stumbled, half-supported out the door.

She came to the head of the stairs, stretched out one hand to the baluster rail and then, unaccountably, she stumbled, tried to recover her balance, failed and went headlong down the stairs.

Reeling, stumbling, Barranca fell into the wall and slid slowly down until he sat propped against it, staring back with a sardonic red-freckled grimace.

The Shadow had dropped, this forgotten battler had stumbled upon a saber.

It was almost dusk when the leaders of the Beduin company stumbled upon a village.

The old-style thunderers like Senators Borah and Hiram Johnson managed to be both vociferous against war and bellicose against Japan without stumbling over any internal difficulty.

He stumbled over to the sink, splashed cold water on his face, and took another benzedrine pill.

Katelyn stumbles as she climbs into the water taxi, and Bonny, already in, grabbing her arm to steady her, is almost pulled over.

In three bounding strides, he hauled horse and rider back to a stumbling halt.

I think it safe to assume that Brasque stumbled on the correct sequence by chance.

Larssen cried out, firing as he stumbled backward, while Brast stood in terror, feet rooted to the ground, his arms clawing at the darkness.

A solo mole person, however, burrowing away at random, was likely to starve long before stumbling across the scattered bounty.

Thus for hour after hour we crept up and on, occasionally butting into the trunk of a tree or stumbling over a fallen bough, but meeting with no other adventures or obstacles of a physical kind.

I was on the point of telling her that I was convinced the hortator had plotted with pirates to wreck the craft when she rose and stumbled out, saying in a dazed way.