Sentence examples similar to stumbled over a rock from inspiring English sources

In 2003, at the beginning of the Iraq war, Necdet Yilmaz, 37, a Turkish artist and a New Yorker who lives in Bellerose, Queens, drew a soldier stumbling over a rock almost entirely covered with sand.

She'd twisted her knee stumbling over a loose rock and had to hobble to her truck, leaning heavily on her walking stick.

"Imagine for a moment that Matthew stumbled over the rock and continued following his dog without noticing the fossil," the scientists wrote in their study.

And it's not that he stumbled over an issue.

They occasionally stumble over small details, such as whether Halsted is a street or an avenue.

We stumble down a rock embankment and start throwing things into the water, whatever we can find — rocks, bottles, old toys, parts of cars.

He interrupts himself, stumbling over a thought.

Again, he shrugs, stumbling over a simple question.