Example Sentences

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I don’t want to make any clumsy comparisons between the coronavirus and the second world war, I begin stumblingly.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2020

She also felt increasingly drawn to Catholic churches, where she was deeply moved by the cadences of medieval hymns as she stumblingly learned to pray the rosary.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020

It was epiphany time, as Noah stumblingly said, “I failed in the most important job I had, which was to protect you from men like — men like me.”

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2017

The California vote, then, probably means that nuclear power will develop about as it has: slowly and stumblingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

He staggered to his feet, groped stumblingly over the rocks away from the water.

From Isle of the Undead by Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur