Sentence examples for was stumbled from inspiring English sources

The firm used a specially tweaked version of Lexan, a polycarbonate plastic that was stumbled upon in 1953 by Daniel Fox, a chemist who worked for GE.

The "biggest thing ever to be discovered in Irish astronomy" was stumbled upon by Dave Grennan during an evening spent sitting in his garden shed.

The manuscript was stumbled upon in a storage unit in Texas and returned to the Buck family in December in exchange for a small fee, said Jane Friedman, the chief executive of Open Road Integrated Media, the publisher.

If that is not incredible enough, the corporation appears ready to forgive her for missing the story, which she mused over for three weeks before it was stumbled upon by Gilligan, Radio 4's conspiracy correspondent.

This museum-quality velocipede of American manufacture was stumbled upon by Sir Chauncey Peakes, K.B.E., as he was studying small-village bicycle racks in search of clues to the indigenous cultures left unlocked.

Here's the original: The photo, the library explains on its Tumblr blog, is "Harlem Loiterers" by the street photographer Sid Grossman (no further details are known about it, unfortunately), and it was stumbled across recently by a curator at the library's Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture.

Now he was stumbling.

"He was stumbling and bumbling.

Two years ago, I.B.M. was stumbling.

I was stumbling around.

The democracy movement was stumbling until recently.