blunder upon

Example Sentences

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Finally, after piling blunder upon blunder for four months, the public relations team at got something right.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2012

There was no saying when they might blunder upon something of the kind.

From On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by Bridges, T. C. (Thomas Charles)

We most earnestly desire to avoid them but we never see them until they strike us, until in the darkness of our ignorance we blunder upon them.

From Self-Development and the Way to Power by Rogers, L. W. (Louis William)

I would not let M. Ballompre blunder upon any of the subjects Ethel feels too deeply to talk of in good French, and really Ethel has a great talent for languages.

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Of course, if he set out with such an error he will accumulate blunder upon blunder.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene