Examples of 'had stumbled' in a sentence

Meaning of "had stumbled"

had stumbled: past tense of stumble which means to make an error or to encounter an obstacle

How to use "had stumbled" in a sentence

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had stumbled
I had stumbled upon the article by chance.
Davies was confident he had stumbled upon something.
You had stumbled into a nudist camp.
Harris was convinced that he had stumbled on a genius.
They had stumbled across an ancient tomb.
It was reported to me that you had stumbled onto this.
We had stumbled upon one of those areas.
The warriors had stumbled across.
He had stumbled onto something and wanted my advice.
What penzias and wilson had stumbled upon.
I thought we had stumbled across something just so cool.
Akeley now seemed reconciled to the whole fiendish system he had stumbled upon.
Accidentally he had stumbled on an ideal camp site.
That richard gave the slightest thought to the site he had stumbled upon.
The fellow had stumbled over a chain.

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Her stomach was still turned from what she had stumbled upon.
Patterson had stumbled on the evidence.
Any remaining evidence on the site where someone had stumbled across human remains.
I had stumbled on it but was not consistent.
Her career had stumbled as well.
We had stumbled across evidence he would have never dared dream of.
What a treasure we had stumbled upon.
He had stumbled and had fallen.
Cavendish did not realise that he had stumbled on a new gaseous element.
He had stumbled into a colony of iguanas.
I felt like a child who had stumbled into a sinister fairy tale.
She had stumbled on the missing half of the explanation.
She realised that she had stumbled upon the fringe of great.
I had stumbled into the first bus that came along.
And the neuroscientists had stumbled on something kind of by accident.
She became curious about a particular puzzle the lake acidification experiments had stumbled on.
We knew we had stumbled into a gem.
Commission officials said at the time that they believed they had stumbled upon a Ponzi scheme.
It felt as if we had stumbled on a lost civilization.
They would done a robbery, passerby had stumbled in.
Boyle had stumbled upon the essential ingredient of a match.
Paul might have been tempted to believe he had stumbled upon a nest of hardened heretics.
Maybe we had stumbled into a horror movie after all.
It was his dead body I had stumbled over.
Most had stumbled from their homes at the noise of it.
I had the strong sense that we had stumbled into some kind of daring privacy.
I had stumbled upon gold.
I popped into a post office I had stumbled on my way out to my destination.
I had stumbled on an angel.
Christopher Columbus died disbelieving that he had stumbled upon a gigantic continent unknown to Europeans.
Patterson had stumbled on the evidence for a mass poisoning on an unprecedented scale.
Did you think you had stumbled on the truth?
I had stumbled upon the psychedelic essence of Salvia divinorum.
He realised he had stumbled on an opportunity.
To hold the ark, because the oxen had stumbled.

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