(v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eye-to-eye, the bumbling bonhomie appeared to be a lacquer of likability over a living obelisk of corporate power.
(2) Just a stepover here, a Cruyff turn there, and his opponent would be destroyed ... Only in real life, Boruc stumbled and bumbled and Olivier Giroud pounced to score.
(3) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
(4) Wallace is a hopeless deadpan dropout, a loser in love and a bumbling muddle.
(5) Accompanied by prolonged silences, it makes the recipients go weak at the knees and blurt out bumbling apologies, as we saw with Nixon's cathartic admission – and then, of course, forgiveness.
(6) Even the suggestion that Christie might enter the race will serve to upend it, with current front-runner Rick Perry causing dismay among some Republicans after a catalogue of bumbling debate performances.
(7) The kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram threw the international spotlight on the rebels, but also highlighted a bumbling government approach to the public.
(8) And then they find a further delay, some kind of situation in the outfield with Eranga, who's had some kind of affair thrown at him from the stand; Bumble thinks it's a piece of cheese, Wensleydale, no doubt.
(9) Deep down, I believe the character really has bumbled her way through a mafia career, using her naivety as protection.
(10) Better, in fact, than Romney's bumbling foreign adventures , which rather than providing voters with a storyline on which they could take a practiced ideological stand, was likely to be seen as a mostly embarrassing, ultimately unrelatable foreign policy glad-hand tour, set to Yackety Sax .
(11) 3.50pm BST Michael Parkinson is in with Gower and Bumble.
(12) Allozyme variation at an average of 37.3 loci was assessed in queens of 16 Bombus and 2 Psithyrus bumble bee species from North America.
(13) The film shuffles interconnecting storylines concerning three Manhattan sisters: the warm, well-meaning Hannah (Mia Farrow) is married to the bumbling Elliot (Michael Caine), who is in turn attracted to her sister, Lee (Barbara Hershey).
(14) More people who voted Labour in 2015 would choose Theresa May as prime minister than Jeremy Corbyn Having endlessly bumbled around the central questions of Brexit, Labour has now come up with six “tests” for the government’s eventual agreement.
(15) As I keep saying, the IMF, ECB and Eurogroup aren’t supervillains and they aren’t bumbling incompetents.
(16) Click here for the Paddington trailer There was a swift online reaction to the still image from the film pictured above, in which Paddington looks less like the harmlessly bumbling bear of Michael Bond's books and more a malevolent creature, disturbingly sentient enough to dress itself in a duffel coat.
(17) Bumbling out of the shop with far too many sausage rolls?
(18) Jonathan was in constant demand whenever a comic toff or a bumbling cleric was called for on TV.
(19) He will be the man who wrecked his premiership by bumbling into a referendum commitment that he didn’t originally want to pledge and then bungling his country out of the EU.
(20) Clinal variation in colour morph frequency in the bumble bee Bombus melanopygusis analysed.
Falter
Definition:
(v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
(v. & n.) To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
(v. & n.) To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
(v. & n.) To hesitate in purpose or action.
(v. & n.) To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
(v. t.) To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
(v. i.) Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(2) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(3) The use of a more 'appropriate' growth curve of exclusively breast-fed, healthy infants instead of the NCHS reference failed to define more accurately the age at which growth faltering starts.
(4) Playboy's globally recognisable "bunny ears" image remains untarnished by economic factors, but its business has faltered amid a rise in free adult entertainment online.
(5) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
(6) Against the backdrop of a faltering global economy, turmoil in the country’s stock markets and overcapacity in factories, Chinese economic growth has slowed markedly.
(7) Kerry flew into the Afghan capital in an attempt to salvage the faltering political and technical agreements that he had brokered between Ghani and his presidential rival, Abdullah Abdullah .
(8) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
(9) It is the liberal drive, with its obsessive seeking of a universal position, that ultimately obscures the violence taking place in this faltering dialogue.
(10) With China a key driving force behind already faltering global growth, its relations with the new US president will come into sharp focus.
(11) The dismal numbers followed a series of factory surveys since the start of 2014 that have pointed to weakness in economic activity as demand has faltered at home and abroad.
(12) Yet, “if the expansion was to falter or if inflation was to remain stubbornly low, the [Fed] would be able to provide only a modest degree of additional stimulus by cutting the federal funds rate back to near zero”.
(13) The clinical picture of repeated infection causing growth faltering followed by oedema, hair and skin changes, resembled the response to infection of many nutritionally stressed children in the tropical world.
(14) The median time for faltering in exclusively fed infants in Jordan was 6 months.
(15) When markets falter and banks fail it's the jobs and the homes and the security of the squeezed middle that are hit the hardest.
(16) The relationship between the prevalence of nine different categories of diseases and growth was investigated to determine the quantitative contribution of the diseases to the growth faltering observed.
(17) Xi has brushed aside concerns about his country’s faltering economy, telling an audience of business leaders in London that it would remain the powerhouse of the global economy.
(18) While the patient is undergoing evaluation of pelvic pain, it is essential that clinicians remain aware that the patient's psychogenic symptoms are an attempt to reinforce a faltering ego.
(19) Next on his list would be the faltering economy, social justice and reinforcing freedom and democracy.
(20) The welfare cap is lined up, as the bedroom tax continues and disability benefits falter.