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

Increasingly this feeling is spreading among Dissenters, and the Church, if it were wise—its history is a career of blunder upon blunder—would have laid its plans to recover such. 

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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)

Labienus, the ablest of them, had but to desert Caesar, to commit blunder upon blunder, and to ruin the cause to which he attached himself.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

An unobserving person, still seeking the key to their intimacy, could easily blunder upon the old bromide and repeat that a pretty woman invariably prefers a plain one for a foil.

From Winner Take All by Evans, Larry