fumbling

Example Sentences

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"And, of course, the key to solving a problem is to understand why it's gone wrong. Otherwise, you're just fumbling in the dark."

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

Booked to play his hit single Ordinary, the 25-year-old was seen fumbling with his earpiece and singing completely out of time with the backing track.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

As I followed a patrol of federal agents around New York City’s Chinatown during their fumbling attempted raid in mid-October last year, I noticed something curious.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2026

In the previously uncollected poems we find Heaney working out forms, responding to social occasions, sometimes fumbling or biding his time but always doing the digging with his pen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

I’m fumbling with the buttons on my coat when Billy appears before me.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass