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• The team won off a late-game fumble by an opposing player.From the entry off
• He decided to take the C downtown and fumbled through a blizzardy wind to Central Park West.2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 322. From the entry blizzardy
• Guy started fumbling with his zipper, trying unsuccessfully to squeeze off the flow of urine.2022, Chuck Marten, Bad Guy Lawyer. From the entry squeeze off
• That's me, a holy greased pig, slickering away out of the fumbling hands of evil.2015, Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals, →ISBN. From the entry slicker
• He grabbed a bottle of hydro from the bureau and fumbled nervously to open it.2011 October 17, eric.k.gale, “Cronus Distraction”, in Io Rising: Espionage in the Twenty-Third Century, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse…. From the entry hydro
• I will politically haunt you for the biggest fumble in the history of San Francisco politics.2011 January 4, Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting. From the entry on like Donkey Kong
• Tomás O'Leary had a torrid time behind the forwards, fumbling on the floor, hesitant with his kicks.2010 January 24, Eddie Butler, “"Rugby must beware leaping from the lenient to draconian over gouging"”, in The Guardian. From the entry torrid
• Every time one of us fumbled with the choppers, it drew laughter from the sidelines.2009, John Higham, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, Alyson Publications. From the entry choppers
• He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out.2008, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind, page 144. From the entry tranq
• Her hand darted in distraction to fumble eightsies, the jacks scattering.2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude. From the entry eightsies
• I drew that conclusion largely from the fumbling nonintelligence (relatively speaking) of men and all sentient creatures.1997, Theodore Dreiser, Franklin Booth, A Hoosier holiday. From the entry nonintelligence
• I fumbled the snap, fell on the ball and about 10 guys dog-piled on top of me.1989 September 7, The Los Angeles Times, Sect. ix, p. 16. From the entry dogpile
• The kickout was fumbled and Barrett lost his chance to try for the goal.1915, The Cornell Alumni News - Volume 18, page 97. From the entry kickout
• Noaks muttered something about getting back to work, and fumbled with the door-handle.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry temporise
• So us fumbling the bag would just be awful.2022 August 4, Katcy Stephan, “‘FBoy Island’ Stars Tamaris, Mia and Louise Break Down Finale Twist: ‘We Never Fumble the Bag’”, in…. From the entry fumble the bag
• Hulu really fumbled the bag when they canceled High Fidelity.2020 August 28, Morgan Murrell, “Hulu Canceled "High Fidelity" Before Giving Fans Cherise Episodes, And I'm Ready To Throw Hands”, in…. From the entry fumble the bag
• She fumbled with her hands nervously because her loyalty is to her brother so basically it was her life or his.2019, Denisha Bates, Captured by a Flint Boss: A Hood Love Story, Shan Presents, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry fetti
• The quarterback turns and hands the ball to his fullback just as Sumo hits him in the backfield causing a fumble.2011, Michael Harston, The Show: The Michael Thomas Story, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry pile on
• Oh my Goddess!’ Indigo chanted quietly whilst fumbling with her rucksack. ‘I'd have to ask Dad,’ cautioned Brandon.2007, Christine Jordan, Indigo, page 131. From the entry oh my Goddess
• But their passing game was anemic and they had butterfingered receivers, who dropped passes and fumbled the ball with alarming regularity.2006, Matthew Algeo, “Birds of Steel”, in Last Team Standing: How the Steelers and the Eagles—“the Steagles”—Saved Pro Football during…. From the entry butterfingered
• His hands fumbled, and his eyelids suddenly felt as if someone had weighed them down with death pennies.2002, Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Mantle, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 503. From the entry death penny
• Nicholas and his black-masked companions waited with feet planted apart as the dungeon master fumbled for his key ring.1998, Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, R.C. Ryan, Marianne Willman, Once Upon a Castle, page 147. From the entry dungeon master
• After a great deal of fumbling and fumfering around in the dark, she managed to get it lighted.1995, Marcia Rose, “That Night”, in Like Mother, Like Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 236. From the entry fumfer
• Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 129. From the entry rap
• You can help me to find the child." She fumbled in her bag and found a slip of paper.1936, Jerrard Tickell, See How They Run, W. Heinemann, page 10. From the entry Nicola
• The old man was fumbling with his sleeve button.1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 8, in Green Light, London: Peter Davies, page 137. From the entry sleeve-button
• This was after the Hail Mary pass caught as time expired, after the game-clinching fumble that squirted out of the end zone in overtime.2024 October 4, John Branch, “What Does College Football Have to Do With College?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry Hail Mary pass
• At best, words are fumbled but somewhat redeemed with an accepted frustration and shrugs, and at worst, phrases, punctuated with grimaced muddlements, simply fail.2016, Joseph Michael Sepesy, Word Dances III: Celebration. From the entry muddlement
• The bands were bad enough — “fumbling,” I scratched in my notebook, “infantile” — but what really did me in was the audience.2014 July 22, James Parker, “The Twee Revolution: From Wes Anderson to Zooey Deschanel to Brooklynites, a terrifying aesthetic is…. From the entry bebearded
• I fumble around for an answer, but the question stays with me as I venture out into the chill of the afternoon.2010, Suzanne Werner, Snapshots. From the entry unluck
• Jack glances at you sidelong while the middle-aged spookmaster is fumbling to articulate whatever it is he's got stuck in his mind.2007, Charles Stross, Halting State. From the entry spookmaster
• The more he heard of fumbled passes, cidery kisses and snapped straps, the more he knew better than to risk such humiliation.2000, Michael Arditti, Easter, page 237. From the entry cidery

Meaning of fumble

1. verb To handle nervously or awkwardly.
2. verb To grope awkwardly in trying to find something.
3. verb To blunder uncertainly.

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Questions about fumble in a sentence

How do you use fumble in a sentence?

Fumble is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie.”

What is a short sentence with fumble?

“He fumbled for his keys.”

What does fumble mean?

Fumble means to handle nervously or awkwardly.