blunder
noun
a gross, stupid, or careless mistake.
were blundering
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past progressiveof blunder.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Sunstein, as a young scholar, found himself both “in awe” of these movements and convinced “that my smartest colleagues were blundering, and I couldn’t explain to myself why.”
From New York Times ● May 14, 2010
Their boppers weren't bopping, their base-runners were blundering and the Sox were starting to look positively slick.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dark figures were blundering through the trees; children were crying; anxious shouts and panicked voices were reverberating around them in the cold night air.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
But, thanks to its friendly shelter, I ran back to my house, while you were blundering about like a lost sheep, and warned Adam.
From The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume
They had the best of everything; they were blundering, blustering, noisy, careless, buccaneering owners of the world, and to her—as all the roystering swarm to any individual worker bee—to her, negligible.
From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
