muddle along

muddle on

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verb

(intr, adverb) to proceed in a disorganized way

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Words nearby muddle along

mud crab, mud crack, mud dauber, mudder, muddle, muddle along, muddlehead, muddleheaded, muddler, muddle through, muddy

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How to use muddle along in a sentence

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
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But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
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While excoriating the IRS, Huckabee brings his readers along on a flashback to his youth.
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Term limits could be a prescription to speed change along.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Chérif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak.
France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”
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Two Battalions racing due North along the coast and foothills with levelled bayonets.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Presently there was a clattering of hoofs behind him, and Ribsy came galloping along the road, with nothing on him but his collar.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl