Meanings of be a fumbling in English

To the chemically uneducated, this may appear to be a fumbling, hit or miss, kind of procedure.

Oil prices tumbled and Maduro proved to be a fumbling showman, exposing the financial ineptitude and ideological hollowness of the "Bolivarian revolution".

At seven o'clock there was a fumbling noise at the heat-blistered door.

This was a fumbling at the latch of the front door.

It was a fumbling and uneasy flight,- amole'strack, whose branchings are untraceable.

As he sat beside his solitary hearth there was a fumbling outside the door.

There was a fumbling suspicion in him that something in his life was not quite right.

There was a fumbling at the door-handle and a small, muffled voice came from the corridor:-

There was a fumbling sound at the transom.

There was a fumbling at the door presently.

There was a fumbling upon the door-knob.

There was a fumbling at the key and bolts, and then the half-asleep and half-awake servant admitted him.

There was a fumbling noise, greatly magnified -thesound of her attaching the microphone to the telephone-and then:

There was a fumbling at the latch, then the door swung in and Haythorne entered with an armful of firewood.

He dozed, and the next he knew there was a fumbling at the door in front, and the muttering of a voice.

There was a fumbling with the fastenings of the street door; then it swung back and a man stepped out and shut it behind him.