stumblingly

Example Sentences

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I don’t want to make any clumsy comparisons between the coronavirus and the second world war, I begin stumblingly.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2020

She also felt increasingly drawn to Catholic churches, where she was deeply moved by the cadences of medieval hymns as she stumblingly learned to pray the rosary.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020

It was epiphany time, as Noah stumblingly said, “I failed in the most important job I had, which was to protect you from men like — men like me.”

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2017

There are reasonable suspense and good comic effect as the three nice women stumblingly rehearse, plan and execute the robbery.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have learnt music enough to play a morceau de salon showily, and the allegretto movement of a sonata stumblingly, and the latter only because it was thought 'proper' that they should learn 'classical music.'

From Household Organization by Caddy, Florence