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Discover LudwigThe phrase "fumble with" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or an object that is handling something with clumsiness or lack of skill. For example, "I could see him fumbling with the key before finally managing to open the door."
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Wi-Fi is free, which means there are no passwords to fumble with.
At one point, the vandals seem to fumble with some papers and tape.
Others lack experience and fumble with business basics like record keeping, payroll and marketing.
Rather than fumble with peculiar remotes, you could simply talk to your television.
There wasn't time to fumble with my crutches, so I hopped out on my good leg.
You fumble with it and a competitor rushes by you, beating you by mere seconds.
"That loses games," Bradshaw said of the fumble with 3 minutes 52 seconds remaining.
I fumble with the logs and the lighter fluid and the bellows.
(He had been expelled from Japan in 1934 after a silly drunken fumble with an indignant Tokyo taxi-driver).
What is "a furtive fumble with a handsome hedonist" against the promise of marriage and salvation, Ms. Eden asks.
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She fumbled with the envelope.
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