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fumbles

n. (plural of fumble English)

Usage examples of "fumbles".

Pergun fumbles into the battered sheepskin jacket and pushes himself upright.

The older man fumbles across the desk with a quill and a square of parchment.

Dorrin takes the pack and fumbles for the packets, identifying them by shape, scent, and sense.

His fingers feel clumsy as he fumbles out the dressings and the powdered astra from the pouch at his belt, as he simultaneously tries to hold order within Petra's wiry body.

Annoyed that she's left it on to ring, interrupting her thoughts, she fumbles it out, expecting Boone.

He sits up, fumbles the striker from his belt, and coaxes the candle into light.

The passageway is dark, but even in his weakened condition, his senses guide him to the cabin doorway, where he fumbles before entering an even darker space.

He fumbles through his memory and manages to bring out, “I feel Harry is in some respects a special case.

He finds his under­clothes and trousers draped on a chair and fumbles with them.

She takes the soaked daubed diaper to the bath­room and drops it in the toilet and dropping to her knees fumbles the bathtub plug into its hole.