Stumbled Sentence Examples

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  • She stumbled to the door.

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  • The horse stumbled, and his rider was thrown heavily to the ground.

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  • She stumbled as she dismounted from the ATV and Giddon reached out to help her.

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  • Alex followed her and stumbled on the stairs.

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  • Finally Dean stumbled up the stairs for a short nap.

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  • She stumbled up the dune behind him and stopped when he held out a hand.

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  • The kid was heavy and Carmen stumbled several times.

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  • She stumbled back and grabbed the pitchfork, jabbing it at him.

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  • She forced herself up and half stumbled, half ran away from the portal.

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  • She stumbled after him into the central area of the dwelling.

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  • The single cone of light flickered on the dripping stone, casting yellow dancing goblins in its shadowy glow as the pair stumbled forward.

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  • She stumbled, fury and fear bubbling within her.

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  • As they moved forward Dean stumbled when his back pack caught on a particularly low place.

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  • He stumbled forward at the impact but showed no other sign of faltering.

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  • I stumbled over my answer.

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  • He stumbled as he climbed the steps to the pulpit and grasped the podium like a life preserver.

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  • Rostov did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, and fell on his hands.

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  • Martha, who I failed to forgive when she stumbled in one drunken moment of need, was gone forever.

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  • He stumbled the last few steps onto the road and into a glare of lights and buzz of activity.

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  • She stumbled in the direction he pushed her, horrified.

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  • He fought off the last of his dream demons, pulled himself to an upright position, and stumbled into the bathroom.

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  • She yanked her hands free and stumbled around him, wanting to flee.

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  • As he stumbled through the halls, he heard the alarms blare.

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  • Horrified, she stumbled into the bathroom for a towel, wrapped her arm in it, and collapsed, sobbing.

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  • Connor stumbled off to the pantry.

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  • Toby took the lead, and the demons, Death and Gabe disappeared as Katie rounded the corner of the palace.  The angel released her and raced into the palace and up a set of stairs.  They ascended several floors, until Katie was sucking wind bad enough to stop.  Toby didn't wait for her, and she stumbled forward.  The interior of the palace was unlit, and the darkness of evening crept into the hallways.

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  • I remembered them, she stumbled, unaccustomed to revealing her past.

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  • Scrambling to her feet again, she stumbled to shallow water.

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  • So you bought the theory that Byrne had stumbled on the dough.

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  • Though Lord Palmerston stumbled over his Foreign Conspiracy Bill in 1858, his popularity was little damaged, and it was in no hopeful spirit that the Tories took office again in that year.

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  • They stumbled from the mine, hugging one another in the sunshine, thankful that the frightening ordeal was over.

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  • She stumbled through the deep sand until her calves ached and her breathing was hard.

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  • Her gaze stumbled on a familiar face at the other end of the hall, and she gasped.

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  • The remaining demon stumbled away.

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  • With the sheer number of demons Darkyn had assigned to watching Deidre over the years and all the leads he'd personally pursued, he should have stumbled upon it by now.

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  • You stumbled — but if that's what it takes to get fired around here, I'd better start packing.

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  • The man inside, dressed in evening attire, stumbled free and spotting the lab, set off in search of help.

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  • And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap.

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  • Um Mistah stumbled by getting her foot entangled in her covering sheet and on that she said, ' Let Mistah be ruined!

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  • I stumbled onto google whilst a complete novice a few months ago.

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  • Last year I inadvertently stumbled on a possible explanation.

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  • Some of my research team had been on survey near Southwold and literally stumbled on a skeleton.

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  • One of them stumbled.

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  • As he stepped past the generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and stumbled over it.

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  • The tall youth, against whom he stumbled, seized his thin neck with his hands and, yelling wildly, fell with him under the feet of the pressing, struggling crowd.

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  • So it was at Krasnoe, where they expected to find one of the three French columns and stumbled instead on Napoleon himself with sixteen thousand men.

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  • Although bulimics often think they've stumbled upon the "perfect" weight control plan, bulimia is not a fad, a lifestyle, or a dieting tool.

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  • First, if you've stumbled upon this and are totally new to the world of cloth diapering then you'll need to know a few basic concepts.

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  • Last year, new born studio Fuse Games stumbled onto the gaming scene with Mario Pinball Land for the Game Boy Advance.

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  • Brian's strongest tie was to his high school sweetheart Hayley Vaughn, when that relationship stumbled and failed Brian was left with little to no ties.

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  • No, I just stumbled my way through this although I am entrepreneurial by nature."

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  • Realizing they had stumbled on something interesting, they gathered Lawrence and Keeler to round out the band.

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  • If so, you have stumbled into Cyberpunk territory.

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  • If you've stumbled across one, there are most likely more where they came from.

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  • Martha downed the rest of her glass, rose and stumbled up the stairs.

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  • Caleb stumbled to a stop ahead of her, causing her to nearly knock him over.

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  • Before they could answer, she turned on her heels and stumbled back to her quarters, diagonally across the hall.

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  • His nerves had been shot since Rhyn left and the Immortals stumbled upon the message about the shapeshifters.

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  • She turned away from him quickly – too quickly, and stumbled.

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  • She had entrusted him with the fragile framework of her dreams and he had stumbled.

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  • Jenn stumbled forward and then ran, jumping over fallen trees and ducking flying debris.

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  • She rose and stumbled forward again, cursed as she ran into a larger boulder, then lost her balance and rolled down a sudden dip.

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  • He stumbled, his body straining beneath her weight and his speed.

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  • He would be watching to see if she stumbled.

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  • I stumbled into a quagmire of my own making.

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  • She scrambled and stumbled, before plunging back into the brush.

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  • When he finally released her, she stumbled back, her heart racing wildly.

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  • Her back foot caught on the lip of the doorway, and she stumbled.

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  • The kind of body that was strong enough to hold and protect her from the freaky dream she'd stumbled into this week.

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  • He'd heard how other immortals stumbled upon the humans meant to mate with them.

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  • Then without a word more and before Darius could stop him, the other immortal stumbled out of the sanctuary.

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  • His horse stumbled into a bog and began to sink into the dark oozing mud.

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  • He stumbled over something and exclaimed before she turned on the lamp beside her bed.

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  • The bay stumbled slightly and he patted its neck.

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  • Disoriented, she stood up again and stumbled to the door.

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  • The thought brought a shiver that coursed down her body as she tried to picture the scene as she and Caleb stumbled deeper into the mine.

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  • Suddenly he flicked off the flashlight, plunging them into utter darkness as she stumbled against him.

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  • You've gone so far as to eliminate some of the enemies who likewise stumbled across her.

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  • She stumbled up and crossed to her bathroom to brush her teeth before going out to breakfast.

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  • Rhyn ignored them, instead fixating on how to track Death in the underworld.  He stumbled with his first step but was soon running hard through the castle, his mind on finding Death to regain Katie.

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  • Tell me you did not seek out Jule when you stumbled back into this realm.

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  • She pushed away from him, stumbled and then swatted his hand away as he steadied her.

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  • She waited, curious and uncertain if she really wanted to know more about the strange new world she stumbled into.

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  • After three days spent in cutting down the sledge and rearranging its load Mawson started on his lonely tramp, and after appalling difficulties, when nearly exhausted, he stumbled on a food depot laid out by a search party 20 m.

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  • It is an advance on this when Heraclitus 2 opposes to the eyes and ears which are bad witnesses " for such as understand not their language " a common something which we would do well to follow; or again when in the incommensurability of the diagonal and side of a square the Pythagoreans stumbled upon what was clearly neither thing nor image of sense, but yet was endowed with meaning, and henceforth were increasingly at home with symbol and formula.

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  • He stumbled unawares upon the revolt of a proud national spirit, evolved through ten historic centuries; and the trap of Bayonne, together with the enthroning of Joseph Bonaparte, made the contemptible prince of the Asturias the elect of popular sentiment, the representative of religion and country.

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  • Caleb began to hurry, and in her haste to keep up with the halo in front of him, she stumbled, falling to her knees and rolling to her side in the wet mud.

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  • Deidre guessed she'd stumbled upon somewhere in the Immortal world.

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  • Kris never would.ve sent him away, Sasha wouldn.t have stumbled upon the immunity blood, and the demons wouldn.t be amassing an army to send to the human world.

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  • She turned away from him quickly – too quickly, and stumbled.

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  • She stumbled and looked down, surprised when she realized it was the ground shaking and not the dizziness she felt at hurting the man who'd truly loved her.

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  • Only once did it rain seriously and then, with the same good luck, I stumbled on a small isolated bothy.

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  • Another ape, too eager to get at them, stumbled over its fallen comrade.

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  • I stumbled into the parlor, where the dimness was alleviated somewhat, and stood near the doorway, a little disoriented.

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  • I come in dead drunk and stumbled over the bed.

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  • He first stumbled across a clinical ethicist on the staff of the teaching hospital at which he was a visiting consultant in the USA.

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  • It was a walk which never faltered, stumbled, or wandered.

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  • We feel very fortunate to have ' stumbled ' across you.

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  • In 1418 Portuguese mariners Joao Goncalves Zarco and Tristao Vaz Teixeira stumbled across it while running from a storm.

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  • She stumbled home with a broken nose, her new coat held to her face to stem the blood.

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  • How strange it must have looked for the many drunken partygoers who stumbled past the queue.

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  • Chris Parkin - Do Something Pretty DREAM MAGAZINE Somewhere in England, Pete Lush stumbled upon an 8-track recorder.

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  • I stumbled across it by chance and became completely spellbound - I read it from start to finish in a period of 24hrs!

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  • Thus he stumbled on Bagovut's corps in a wood when it was already broad daylight, though the corps should long before have joined Orlov-Denisov.

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  • Joy turned to horror as father fieldmouse stumbled across the rotting corpse of Grandpa.

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  • In fact it 's one of a few sophomore sets from the soul underground, which I have stumbled across recently.

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  • We stumbled like idiots along 100m of passage strewn with huge boulders without once seeing the roof.

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  • Pushing Edward aside he stumbled blindly into one of the choir rooms, slamming the door behind him.

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  • For several days I stumbled around in an agony of fear.

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  • His breath tore raggedly through his lungs as he slipped and stumbled over rocks in the darkness.

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  • If I had not stumbled upon Polly and Pet Essence, Cappy would still be taking ½ valium a day.

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  • If you just stumbled upon the Kelly Blue Book website today, you would never imagine that the company started when, in 1918, a young college student named Les Kelley started overhauling and reselling used cars to pay for college.

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  • She stumbled but pressed herself to keep up, in case he left her there and she was trapped.

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  • I thought something was wrong when Brady's men stumbled across one of the devices and returned it to the mountain.

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  • They will feel like we stumbled sloppily into the future.

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  • She stumbled upon Belle, who was crouching near the window where Captain Keller was standing.

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  • This longing to distinguish themselves, to maneuver, to overthrow, and to cut off showed itself particularly whenever the Russians stumbled on the French army.

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  • Unknown to him, he had just stumbled across what was going to be the main seam of ironstone in East Cleveland.

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  • I stumbled across it by chance and became completely spellbound - I read it from start to finish in a period of 24hrs !

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  • I have stumbled accross this site as it promised to send me a free t-shirt with my favorite goat printed on the front. hmmm.

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  • I stumbled backward, the book dropping from my hand.

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  • Wire caught and tripped them and tangled them, but they stumbled on.

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  • Recently, I stumbled across something on the internet.

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  • Incredibly - with the Cooper Owen Music Legends auction looming Madame Tussauds have now stumbled upon the waxwork heads ' missing bodies.

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  • I stumbled upon a specialty retailer a couple of years ago when I was searching for the perfect bathroom faucet.

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  • If you stumble upon baggies filled with a substance that resembles small white clumps or rocks, you may have stumbled upon crack cocaine.

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  • When she appeared on Comedy Central's roast for William Shatner, she again stumbled over her prepared jokes, needing to restart several times to deliver her speech.

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  • Don't discount old-fashioned methods, as many couples have stumbled on love in the library and other common places.

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  • Apparently, she stumbled after her long pants became tangled in her open toed shoes.

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  • Zimmerman stumbled on an R&B and blues station from Little Rock, Arkansas that further connected him to the truth of the blues lyrics it played.

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  • Scooter Braun, a former So So Def Records executive, stumbled across Bieber on YouTube.

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  • There's nothing worse than doing yard work in the scalding sun only to find you've stumbled upon -- and rubbed your skin against -- poison ivy, poison oak, or poison sumac.

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  • She stumbled back after leaving the door open barely enough for Dean to enter.

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  • He reached for her and she stumbled back, holding up her hand to ward him off.

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  • Katie started in the direction of the woman's voice.  She stumbled over fallen, slick wood and brambles she couldn't see.  Whatever magic that had cleared a path for her was gone.  She struggled through the jungle before calling out, "Can you hear me?  I can't see much.  You'll have to say something, so I can find you."

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  • He yelled Cynthia's name as he stumbled ahead until he reached the wind-driven surf splashing at his feet.

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  • We stumbled into an incredible gift that was bestowed on Howie and we couldn't live with ourselves or look at one another if we didn't embrace everything in our power to maximize its benefits.

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  • Talon stumbled, and Dusty froze rather than pounced, his head whipping around.

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  • She made no effort to move away from him, but he pushed her slightly forward until she stumbled, and caught a branch as she let out a muffled scream.

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  • She staggered toward it, stumbled, then fell through it and landed flat on her back on a familiar, faded red rug.

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  • You stumbled — but if that's what it takes to get fired around here, I'd better start packing.

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  • Jonny's words bounced around in her thoughts as she recalled the look Darian had given the portal they stumbled upon.

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  • She stumbled away from a guardsman's blow that knocked her remaining dagger from her hand and landed hard.

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  • The first reached the nearby stream and stumbled, falling to his knees in the center of its shallow waters.

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  • Or, through serendipity, scientists stumbled into things—with those "your chocolate is in my peanut butter" moments.

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  • Cynthia said as the pair stumbled down the path.

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