bumble

Example Sentences

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Could 9-8 be enough to bumble into the playoffs this season?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

When, in the farcical, action-oriented second half, some attempt to execute a … plot, they bumble and argue and push each other to the front.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

The research employed a combination of field and laboratory studies, starting with quantifying pesticide residues at suitable hibernation sites for bumble bee queens on Ontario farms.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

Despite all the heavy talk, the film is peppered with moments of levity - the director occasionally cuts away abruptly from tough conversations to run footage of soothing shorelines and bumble bees on flowers.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2024

The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley