Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
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Examples for "stumble "
Examples for "stumble "
1 We sink in water; in air we tumble; on earth we stumble .
2 In the descent to the cañon the pony began to stumble badly.
3 The media wanted a story and the only story was a stumble .
4 I saw men fall; I saw the living stumble over the dead.
5 You stumble on past the glass and iron of the indoor market.
1 Suddenly, in the flat, the Prince seemed to stagger in his saddle.
2 The horse gave a convulsive stagger and fell dead in the shafts.
3 Choking and gasping, he followed her lead and managed to stagger upright.
4 The concussion of the explosion made the ship stagger for a moment.
5 Even with great care the best he could do was a stagger .
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.
The act of moving forward suddenly.
Другие значения термина "lurch" 1 But several councillors said the government was leaving Aucklanders in the lurch .
2 Nepal, Bangladesh and the Maldives lurch from one political crisis to another.
3 That Ellis's company had left farmers in the lurch was well known.
4 Every few minutes Slidell would lurch to his feet and disappear outside.
5 With a sudden lurch forward the Sergeant plunged headlong in the snow.
6 The bubble burst leaving the new north Dublin suburb in the lurch .
7 It was never her way to leave a fellow-creature in the lurch .
8 Do you seriously mean you're going to leave me in the lurch ?
9 The boat gave a little lurch toward the middle of the stream.
10 I hope to God he'll not leave us in the lurch to-night.
11 After all these years I could never leave Bernard in the lurch .
12 I lurch forward in surprise to look at the girl who spoke.
13 That was a pretty rough way you left me in the lurch .
14 But the world may have taken a lurch in their desired direction.
15 And he found his walk peculiar; more a lurch than a step.
16 And Dad would never have left any white man in the lurch .
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