Sentence examples for I was fumbling from inspiring English sources

I was fumbling around for a cigarette.

A perky clerk insisted on refolding the sweaters I was fumbling with.

For years I was fumbling around in the dark, but didn't realise I was missing out.

While I was fumbling around, trying to get blood from your dehydrated veins, you were trying to tell me about a special day you'd experienced 30 years ago.

"When we went into the men's room to change into our tuxedos, George screamed at me because I was fumbling with my tie".

I was fumbling for my keys on the street outside my flat when a man stepped out of the darkness and punched me three times in the face – twice in the jaw, once in the mouth – and stole my bag.

So in the beginning, I always feel like I'm fumbling for an entry point.

As attractive young people in Barista baseball caps shout the orders, I'm fumbling for a lost loyalty card.

"In the meantime I'll redirect my emails to your good self, if anything important comes in can you tell them I'm fumbling at the school disco or something.

I suppose what I am fumbling toward is a dialectic which can bridge the material and the ideal — or put more palatably for you, I am trying to infuse material notions of energy into that philosophical country of the ideal which psychoanalysis now rules with a barbarian's club. . . .

I've only to lock myself in the loo for three seconds — the key has fallen out of its hole and I'm fumbling to get it back in — and I'm in a Force 12 sweat and screaming to be let out.