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
It makes an apt preparation for the far more serious blunder upon which the main part of the action turns.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
Of late years however, an anonymous writer, by a course of reasoning exceedingly unphilosophical, has contrived to blunder upon a plausible solution—although we cannot consider it altogether the true one.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan
Some men would have maimed their chance, if not spoiled the game, by jumping up with hot interruption, and hurriedly exposed the blunder upon which Dillon had stumbled.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 by Various
A lone object in the vast darkness, there was not a chance in a hundred for them to blunder upon him.
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
