(v. i.) To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
(v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.
(v. i.) To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
(v. t.) To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(2) And it's very nearly a huge play to open the game, as return man Kyle Williams fumbles the ball as he gets hit ... but manages to recover it himself.
(3) Suddenly the game seemed to be slipping away from the Ravens, matters going from bad to worse as Ray Rice fumbled at the Baltimore 24.
(4) As City fumble their hold on the Premier League trophy, United's grip tightens.
(5) January 7, 2014 SEC Football (@SECfootball) That fumble was a very Heisman-like fumble.
(6) Lofts it into the box and Barthez fumbles, gathers, then releases Henry.
(7) Instagram in particular came to gain from Flickr’s fumble.
(8) When Kerry arrived in Paris, he rushed to warmly embrace the French president, but when Hollande went to give Kerry a typical French greeting ( une bise ), Kerry fumbled – and for a moment it looked like the two men were about to start french kissing for real.
(9) They go back to James a play later and he's in trouble, but spins into space before dropping the ball - FUMBLE!
(10) Another hostage, Joel Herat, screamed “He’s chasing us!” as Morton-Hoffman fumbled to open the main door.
(11) It began with a turnover, as Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson fumbled away possession on the very first play, and effectively ended with one too, Smith’s interception killing San Francisco’s final comeback attempt with just 22 seconds left to play.
(12) 49ers 20-10 Panthers, 8:53, 3rd quarter Kaepernick fumbles on the next drive!
(13) They had started with a short field after Terrelle Thomas intercepted Terrelle Pryor, taking the ball back on a helter-skelter return which ended with the defender fumbling the ball at the Oakland five-yard line, only for officials to rule that he had been down by contact.
(14) US oil spill inquiry chief slams BP 11 November Ex-BP boss says when oil spill hit, BP was forced to make up disaster response as it went along Tony Hayward: Public saw us as 'fumbling and incompetent' 12 November Greenland wants upfront payment to cover major oil spills in wake of BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster Greenland wants $2bn bond from oil firms keen to drill in its Arctic waters 24 November Ken Feinberg expects to pay out only $2.3bn in emergency claims over Gulf of Mexico oil spill from $20bn fund Half of BP oil spill damages claims 'inadequate', says payout chief 25 November Tar balls discovered in shrimping net seven months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill Section of Gulf of Mexico closed to shrimpers after tar balls found 15 December The US government files a suit against BP and several of its partners in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
(15) Having just praised the Saints for their cautious gameplan, it backfires spectacularly – Mark Ingram fumbling on a carry up the middle.
(16) It was as much as I could do to stop myself giggling as the bemused caller lost his thread and started fumbling for words.
(17) It would be fair to say that, over time, we fumbled into the cluster,” he adds.
(18) I guess you could make that link superficially, because I'm dark as well, and we're roughly the same age, and when she's fumbling around I can see why people might go there.
(19) Labour may promote more women, but more than one cabinet minister needed his women staff protected from slobbery kisses and aggressive fumblings.
(20) All payouts for specific performances in a game, including interceptions or causing fumbles, are against NFL rules.
Grope
Definition:
(v. i.) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
(v. i.) To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
(v. t.) To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
(v. t.) To examine; to test; to sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
(2) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
(3) He was also convicted of groping a girl aged about eight who had sought his autograph at a public event in Portsmouth, and touching a teenage waitress during the filming of a TV show in Cambridge.
(4) This carnival of camera phones, caressing and even groping (the waxen men do have "moulds" where their private parts would be so that their trousers hang properly, but no, nothing too realistic down there) is the celebrity world were we in control.
(5) I pondered the scene once or twice last week, with the news dominated by Lord Rennard and ongoing allegations of his having groped women .
(6) Since a tape was released of Trump bragging about grabbing women “by the pussy”, nine women have come forward with accusations that he groped them without consent.
(7) But for blastic crisis, we still grope in the dark.
(8) Compared to the parallel dominant-language situation, subjects verbalizing in their nondominant language produced more speech-primacy and groping hand movements.
(9) The issue may have roiled the political world this week, much as boasting of groping women overshadowed the previous debate, but what really distinguished the third and final television showdown of the reality TV election was the unusual amount of time both candidates devoted to attacking each other’s policies rather than each other.
(10) Separately, Verity James, a newsreader for ABC, told reporters she and a female producer were groped by Harris during a radio interview in 2000.
(11) Ten women on average complain of being stalked, groped or otherwise harassed in the Indian capital every day .
(12) Just to emphasise the point, Jordan again wobbles out past Sangakkara's groping outside edge.
(13) When Gordon Brown banged on about Britishness in the last decade, groping for a definition, the right mocked him.
(14) He thwacks his machete into a stump to free his hands and reaches over a stone wall, groping for something in the vegetation beneath.
(15) Sexual harassment and "lad culture" are rife on university campuses, with more than a third of women reporting that they have suffered unwelcome advances in the form of inappropriate groping and touching, research shows.
(16) She said Trump made advances on her, including groping her under the table during a dinner the following night at the Plaza Hotel.
(17) I am here to seek justice and am pleased with the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who march for women’s rights today,” said Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice who has accused Trump of groping her and making aggressive, unwanted sexual advances.
(18) Jill Harth speaks out about alleged groping by Donald Trump Read more Zervos said once she had refused Trump’s advances several times, he seemed to transform and to only want to discuss her business goals.
(19) More may have passed unnoticed, walking through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe groping for answers to its worst refugee crisis since the second world war.
(20) ‘Everyone in the field knows he is a serial sexual predator’ – anonymous, university professor My institution banned a lecturer from meeting students outside his office or at night for groping graduate students.