Sentence examples for long stumbled from inspiring English sources

The owls are native to California, and during southerly fall migrations small numbers of them have long stumbled upon the isolated granite outcrop, a wildlife refuge 27 miles west of the Golden Gate and open only to researchers.

Which got me to thinking about popular music and its decades-long, stumbling quest for a successful extended form.

I was quickly becoming exhausted, too, reeling from the wine and the long stumble back from town.

The steel industry was beginning its long stumble when it turned to Washington for help in the late 1970s.

But his story might serve to lessen the anxiety of today's parents about their own children's long stumble toward independence: Stanley Hall went on to great success.

An H.I.V.-positive character declines to spread it to the unknowing; an artist recovers his gifts after a long stumble through the lower realms of groupie dissolution.

I thought about this for a second, weighing the possibility that I was about to get rolled against the certainty that I'd otherwise face a long stumble across a city that had already closed for the night.

Over the decades he foresaw many shifts, including, famously, the diffused ownership of U.S. corporations, primarily through pension plans, and the rise and long stumble of the Japanese economy.

It was a vivid moment, and before long we stumbled out into the dimming light to see the last of our selections.

Certainly, an army, or at least a few divisions, of credentialed experts on human parenthood long ago stumbled on Mr. Millan's philosophical holy trinity — exercise, discipline and affection equals happiness.

One, in particular, is the kind of note that biographers long to stumble across.