Sentence examples for fumble along from inspiring English sources

"fumble along" is a phrase that is used in written English
It typically refers to taking clumsy, awkward steps towards achieving something. Example: She was fumbling along with her new project, not quite sure of the best way to proceed.

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On each occasion, the night would fumble along and we'd do the thing, and I'd always be told after the act itself: over coffee in the morning or a week later in a drunken outpouring of emotion.

All the movies you see - small ones, bigger ones... they fumble along the way like I do.

[That support] really helped me to fumble along on my entrepreneurial path before I finally started MindSpring.

This hug is a detriment to other manufacturers, to be sure, who fumble along with random Honeycomb releases while one company becomes the beneficiary of Google's largesse.

Shockingly uncomfortable in the pocket, he had a crucial fumble along with the two picks, including a questionable decision to throw across his body late in OT, which ultimately resulted in Justin Tucker's game-winning field goal.

Gavin, now the US 82nd Airborne Division's commander, was critical of Browning, writing in his diary on 6 September 1944 that he "...unquestionably lacks the standing, influence and judgement that comes from a proper troop experience.... his staff was superficial... Why the British units fumble along... becomes more and more apparent.

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I'm fumbling along, but hopefully without the competing siren song of my devices, I'll have made some progress by the end of this digital pause.

He went up, one hand fumbling along the railing, the other clenched over nose and mouth.

June charges ahead; Hector fumbles along, dragged kicking (but not screaming) into some kind of settling into his own baffled life.

I read one a day and then two a day,then I ran out and fumbled along the library shelves pulling out books at random.

In limited duty in the five games he has played, he has showed a knack for making things happen with 10 tackles and 2 forced fumbles, along with the fumble recovery in Cincinnati.

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