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
A crawler, a creeper, toddler, a stumbler and a sneaker Mrs. Jones came out to take care of the butter.
From The Court of Boyville by Lowell, Orson
It is said, however, that if the car breaks and the elephants refuse to move, the title becomes derisive and is either ‘Lule Singhai,’ the lame one, or ‘Arku Singhai,’ the stumbler.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
