stumbler

Example Sentences

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Fully accepting that he’s the vulnerable stumbler into conditions and spaces typically inhospitable to humans, Munier still finds spiritual worth in going a day without any sightings.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2021

Ridgefield, Conn. Cat haters are of four types: the insecure, the egocentric, the stumbler, the peasant.

From Time Magazine Archive

From above and beyond, we perceive him not as a great man falling but as a fragile, all too human stumbler.

From Time Magazine Archive

It being generally the practice,—and a very bad practice it is,—for riders to correct horses after having made a false step, an habitual stumbler may be easily detected.

From The Young Lady's Equestrian Manual by Anonymous

But the remark does not pass unheeded, and a laugh, varying in tone from open guffaw to suppressed titter, further exasperates and discomfits the luckless stumbler, who vows vengeance on his tormentor.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram