Sentence examples for bumbling along from inspiring English sources

He pretends to be very silly sometimes, bumbling along, but he's always there for the picture.

But this localised approach of individual police forces simply bumbling along and giving it their best shot is scandalously inadequate.

Either that or more likely the simple village idiot, just bumbling along, taking what life throws at you" – Andrew Beveridge (and others).

In wizarding terms, he's bumbling along rather nicely as a sort of Hollywood version of Neville Longbottom – ever-present, strong in supporting roles and with the occasional moment of personal glory to celebrate, even if he's unlikely to ever win the Hogwarts house cup.

Sir Menzies Campbell also rejected claims Mr Clegg was "bumbling along" as party leader insisting he was in "full control".

After all, there are whole departments out there filled with people just bumbling along, researching the chemical structure of newt toenails or somesuch--surely anyone who can hold a pipette the right way up can make it?

He bumbles along, solving cases thanks more to tenacity and long hours than to brilliant intuition.

Predictions of change in Egypt have almost always proved wrong; generally it bumbles along much as usual.

People aren't capable of transcendence most of the time, after all: we bumble along, doing the best we can.

Shambles it may have been, but the business has bumbled along well enough: the latest quarterly results, on January 23rd, were decent and the share price has not suffered.

For several years, Duane Reade continued to bumble along, expanding its footprint around New York City with its convenient yet famously cluttered stores.