Sentence examples for was stumbled on from inspiring English sources

The idea for the site came to Yuan when he was stumbled on an independent artist while taking a vacation on a remote island in Indonesia.

The idea for the site came to Yuan when he was stumbled on an independent artist while taking a vacation on a remote island in Indonesia.

Mike Brown, the astronomer who discovered Eris, said "through this whole crazy circus-like procedure, somehow the right answer was stumbled on.

Her dad had left home, and her mother, a bipolar who smoked pot three times daily, was stumbling on and off welfare.

Göring's standing with Hitler was greatly reduced by 1942, when the Luftwaffe failed to fulfill its commitments and the German war effort was stumbling on both fronts.

"What are the chances of you stumbling on something that's never been stumbled on?" Luhnow said.

Sources are stumbled on; important interviews emerge through chance meetings; timing is critical to getting potential interviewees to talk.

That is why the English genre – from Christie to James and Rendell – has often involved bodies being stumbled on in rural communities, guaranteeing a dissonance between order and disorder.

Even so, I honestly believe that great films should be stumbled on, like treasures in the dirt, not ticked off like a 12-point plan to intellectual glory.

But that sort of greatness is meant to be stumbled on, not manufactured, even if Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, longtime Internet comedy stars and once  hosts of a short-lived, and numbing, TV show about the Web, are faithful students of the form.

Accounting sleuth Donn Vickrey says he's stumbled on some gems.