were blundering
- past progressive of blunder.
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
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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
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All three of them were blundering about like cattle attacked by stinging insects.
From The Barbarians by Emshwiller, Ed
Most of the barges were upset and the great beasts were blundering across the river between her and the barges.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold