How do you use Stumbles in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Stumbles meaning
plural of stumble
Using Stumbles
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of stumble
- In the example corpus, stumbles often appears in combinations such as: stumbles upon, stumbles into, he stumbles.
Context around Stumbles
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stumbles
- In this selection, "stumbles" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nunez, script, asta, upon and across stand out and add context to how "stumbles" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a few stumbles but all and after early stumbles in iowa. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stumbles" sits close to words such as afd, allianz and ancillary, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stumbles
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One day, she stumbles upon a bear cub on its own. (11 words)
At this point, the man gets agitated and stumbles over his argument. (12 words)
Ellie stumbles into a newly dead body that hasn’t turned yet. (12 words)
An explicit twist involving Kat’s character gets the film’s biggest laughs, humiliating everyone and turning the four friends against one another, though the otherwise satisfying script stumbles through the inevitable fall-out and make-up scenes. (38 words)
About halfway through the book, Nunez stumbles on something like a plot: the narrator is asked to take care of a male parrot named Eureka for a couple stranded in California by the pandemic. (34 words)
His suicide attempt is interrupted when he sees someone jumping off a balcony nearby, and when he goes to investigate, he stumbles upon a lounge cafe run by a mysterious, nameless person. (32 words)
Stark difference between his clarity and focus on fixing our country, and Trump’s stumbles and focus on himself! (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
About halfway through the book, Nunez stumbles on something like a plot: the narrator is asked to take care of a male parrot named Eureka for a couple stranded in California by the pandemic.
An explicit twist involving Kat’s character gets the film’s biggest laughs, humiliating everyone and turning the four friends against one another, though the otherwise satisfying script stumbles through the inevitable fall-out and make-up scenes.
Asta stumbles upon a new sword and unknowingly borrows Noelle's water magic to attack their opponent, creating a blue slash.
At this point, the man gets agitated and stumbles over his argument.
Considering all the stumbles this season, the Bulls will take what they can get.
Ellie stumbles into a newly dead body that hasn’t turned yet.
He soon stumbles upon a mysterious, powerful black Trident that gives him ancient powers he can’t quite explain.
He stumbles over his words and almost says he’s gonna enter Money in the Bank rather than Elimination Chamber, and claims he’s gonna win the United States Championship again.
He stumbles upon his talent of printing fake notes that are so close to original that even the top technology can create.
His suicide attempt is interrupted when he sees someone jumping off a balcony nearby, and when he goes to investigate, he stumbles upon a lounge cafe run by a mysterious, nameless person.
In one of the series’ most bizarre subplots, Kevin stumbles into the world of fetish and begins to make and sell softcore videos of himself getting tickled.
In the first story, ‘Riffat’s Diary’, a historian is fascinated by her mother’s feminist inclination in the 1960s in Karachi, when she stumbles upon her mother’s diary.
On a routine family visit to Mexico, young Alex stumbles upon an extraordinary secret: a juvenile chupacabra hidden in his grandfather's shed.
One day, she stumbles upon a bear cub on its own.
Portrayed by Shia LeBeouf, Sam stumbles into the ongoing war between the Autobots and the Decepticons by accident.
She stumbles across a little girl’s note to Santa asking him to help her widower father Derek (David Haydn-Jones) find a new wife.
South Carolina Democrats, personified by Representative Jim Clyburn, came to Biden’s rescue in the state’s 2020 primary, after early stumbles in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Stark difference between his clarity and focus on fixing our country, and Trump’s stumbles and focus on himself!
Sure it had a few stumbles, but all in all it was a win.
The Hitchhiker can set traps around the maps that Victims can get stuck in. He is alerted every time someone stumbles upon one of his deadly traps.
Common combinations with stumbles
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stumbles upon 25×
- stumbles into 17×
- he stumbles 17×
- she stumbles 13×
- stumbles across 10×
- stumbles in 8×
- who stumbles 8×
- stumbles and 7×
- and stumbles 6×
- stumbles over 5×