Example Sentences

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It’s a tough call for a man who has blundered into the wrong friendship.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

It’s headed clear and it looks as if Turay has blundered a promising position when the ball is knocked forward and though he looks offside no flag is up, and he miscontrols out.

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2022

This led to the lawyer stating to Mr Gellan: "Someone has blundered, either at First Bus, or at Glasgow City Council carrying out a grossly incompetent employment process."

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2015

Groupon has blundered through a series of accounting restatements, public gaffes, and shareholder lawsuits.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 12, 2012

A horse-stealer who has blundered into better fortune is scandalized at his former craft; and a sheep-stealer can weep in the very face of the lamb which another has stolen.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander