stumble
verb (used without object)
to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
stumbler
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a word derived from
stumble.
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
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
Ridgefield, Conn. Cat haters are of four types: the insecure, the egocentric, the stumbler, the peasant.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a way of making some poor stumbler conjugate the same verb fifteen to twenty times in succession, so that the correct sequence might never again escape his memory.
From The Soul of a Child by Edwin Björkman
The lane is such a long one, and your father was always a sad stumbler in the dark!
From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
