Used in a Sentence

stumbles

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stumbles.

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Only way it turns out differently is when a surgeon is poking around in there for some other reason and stumbles across it.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

noun

An error or blunder.

noun

A clumsy walk.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stumbles.

noun

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

noun

An error or blunder.

noun

A clumsy walk.

verb

To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.

Example sentences

1

Only way it turns out differently is when a surgeon is poking around in there for some other reason and stumbles across it.

2

Please don't make it so hard for someone who stumbles onto your blog to learn about your product.

3

Might be worth documenting in case a reader stumbles upon this before going through what you did.

4

Instead its all curated and categorized using NLP techniques for all the content our application stumbles upon.

5

Better hope they aren't running a search engine that stumbles on kiddie porn/extremist material/pirated content, etc...

6

Well, it is a given that whenever facebook stumbles and falls, the entire News Corp.

7

Always imagine someone stumbles over your page, not knowing what it's about at all.

8

My 60fps-on-skyrim-ultra-settings PC stumbles, lags, and kicks up all the fans to handle rendering some of these web pages because of all the ads.

9

OP suggests people leave contact info in their profiles, in case somebody stumbles onto your comments and wants to talk to you for some reason.

10

(so that if Google stumbles, you can switch providers) (b) Have full records of all accounts & aliases.

11

But if someone else who stumbles upon this server and has other motives, they could be able to dig further and gain access to DB files.

12

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

Quote examples

1

It's just a "gotcha" for that method that might be easy to overlook if you aren't paying attention (or if someone with less experience stumbles onto this 'trick' in production code).

2

Makes me think of "The Man in the Arena": It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

3

Here's a quote by a person a lot more eloquent than me: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

4

You've probably heard this one before but its fitting upon the death of a dream: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stumbles in a sentence?

Only way it turns out differently is when a surgeon is poking around in there for some other reason and stumbles across it.

What does stumbles mean?

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

What part of speech is stumbles?

stumbles is commonly used as noun, verb.