How to Use bumbling in a Sentence

bumbling

adjective
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  • The bumbling group from Texas found that to be true as well.
    — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The Rams did just enough to beat a bumbling Giants team that fell to 5-11.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
  • How can the same guy embody both a stoic hero and this bumbling clown?
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Mr Johnson is the favourite, but his bumbling style seems odd at a time of crisis.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • At the moment, with an 11th-hour push to try to keep its teams, the District certainly looks bumbling.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The murder itself seemed like such a bumbling bunch of mistakes.
    — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2019
  • As always, Gromit plays detective and action hero while the bumbling Wallace is just lucky to be along for the ride.
    — Jeremy Fassler, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And the Saviors without Negan are, thus far, a fairly bumbling lot.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • One year after he was left home alone for Christmas, a boy is stranded on his own in New York City, facing the same bumbling crooks.
    — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Cleveland Clowns: Rest assured that whichever quarterback the bumbling Browns take will be the wrong one.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But of course Hannah can’t be bumbling around her house with her eyes covered all the time, so Oliver comes up with a plan to help retrain her brain re: her kids.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Gideon Lichfield: Or any of these other big moonshot—I'm bumbling.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 21 June 2023
  • Pegg plays a cop on the trail of a serial killer beheading the people of a quiet English town; Frost, his bumbling sidekick.
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Much of the story is told through the eyes of Grover, a bumbling engineer in his late twenties who, yes, gets promoted to producer.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Remy goes on to secretly join forces with a bumbling young chef to cook at the acclaimed (but, alas, fictional) restaurant Gusteau’s.
    — Vogue, 17 July 2023
  • Rex’s colleagues include a lead detective who changes every three to four seasons; an earnest deputy; and a bumbling third guy who stays at the station.
    — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • As a journalist and frequent talk show guest before that, he was seen by many critics as using a bumbling demeanor to mask a loose grip on facts.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Beyond competing in the digital world, the bumbling billionaires are said to also be gearing up to duke it out in a cage match.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 6 July 2023
  • But there is something to be said for winning, regardless of how many mistakes a team makes against a bumbling opponent.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The creature turns out to be a child trying to find her way home, and she's being pursued by pleasantly bumbling agents from the Ministry of Alien Detection.
    — Danny Horn, EW.com, 20 July 2024
  • And here’s where my bumbling could actually pay off — the fingers shouldn’t be perfectly shaped.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Vic is gruff and bumbling and often appears almost literally as a bull in a china shop.
    — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2019
  • This show about a soccer football team and its bumbling yet positive American coach has been a monster hit for AppleTV+.
    — Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • Mamet is glass-shatteringly shrill as the insecure, off-putting Pampinea, while McMeekin has a Corden-esque knack for playing the bumbling fool.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 25 July 2024
  • The comedy follows four young lovers and a bumbling band of players in an enchanted forest realm of fairies and moonlight revels.
    — The Courier-Journal, 2 June 2023
  • Johnson ended up appearing six more times, honing his bumbling persona in the process.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Another source of joy was her co-star, Bellucci, who plays the elegant and graceful foil to her bumbling misfit.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Left alone at Christmas time, a plucky youngster uses his creativity and wit to stave off two bumbling burglars.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But the Republicans’ silence says more than their bumbling words ever could: There is no coherent case to be made in Trump’s defense, so the best response is none at all.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2019
  • But the season began with a bumbling loss to Wyoming and never really got on track, and the Tigers were forced to beat Arkansas just to become bowl-eligible.
    — Dave Skretta, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2019

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