Example Sentences

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Years later, as I was fumbling down the road to becoming a working writer, I found wisdom, and hope, in his nonfiction treatise “On Writing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023

That sense that she was fumbling in the dark was by design.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

The 3D tracking software showed the animals tended to wag their tails more on the right side of their bodies when the researcher was fumbling.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 21, 2022

I was fumbling with my phone to try to catch an image of the gorgeous cherry blossoms and glanced away for a brief moment.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2022

She was fumbling with the straps of Crookshanks’s basket as she spoke.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling