Example Sentences
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He thanked his team and family before blundering into acknowledging the prime minister in the Royal Box.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Leafy speaks for all of the author’s blundering characters when, at one low ebb, he sums himself up as “an aristocrat of pain and frustration, a prince of anguish and embarrassment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
“It’s true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
Naive, blundering hobbyists and reckless pranksters can also veer into restricted airspace, setting off alarms and potentially shutting down airport traffic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The night they turned on the new lights around the courthouse it waked them up and they were flying around and blundering into the lights all night long.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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