How to Use stumble across/on/onto/upon in a Sentence
stumble across/on/onto/upon
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Can't seem to stumble across the right tweed set at the consignment shop?
—Aemilia Madden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
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Fans of The Idea of You could stumble upon a boy band romance in real life thanks to this Airbnb listing!
—Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
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The 10-minute film is an attempt to answer cries for help for those who stumble across it, and to let people know that there are ways to cope.
—G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
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If someone grabs an ankle, do what is necessary to break loose and stumble on down the court.
—Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2023
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The lawsuit may stumble on other grounds, like the claims about OpenAI’s creation of a for-profit arm.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
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The thing about perusing gifts for others is that you’re bound to stumble across something that’s better suited for you (right?).
—Grace Stearns, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
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Moments like a stumble on a stairway or a fall off a bike have attracted attention.
—Katie Glueck, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
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The snow has melted, and the spring countryside is just lovely, even before our heroes stumble across a herd of giraffes on their travels.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
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Read Next World Workers stumble upon treasure trove buried 350 years ago in Germany.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
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Kho decided to withhold the photo from the print newspaper so readers wouldn’t stumble across it.
—Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
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There’s also no need to allow packaging that might confuse young children who stumble on a stash.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
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Writer-director Jay Burleson has made two separate homages to the kind of long-running horror franchises that genre fans would stumble across in video stores in the ’80s and ’90s.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
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Texas lawmakers did not stumble upon these tactics on their own.
—Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2023
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The latest workers to stumble across some 2,000 year old finds were preparing an area for laying new pipes in Rome’s Appio Latino district.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
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In an aimless stroll down South Street, stumble across plenty of funky and fresh shops including Retrospect Vintage.
—Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2023
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That’s what audience members, those who plan to attend or those who stumble across the performances, could get out of Resonant Spaces.
—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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The notebooks are made of exquisite paper, and there are so many cute greeting cards, calendars, and other stationery goods to stumble upon.
—Medea Giordano, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
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The updates could make Reddit better for those who stumble upon it through a search engine, whizlogic said.
—Jay Peters, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2023
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Given the ubiquity of DNA testing these days, there is some likelihood that these brothers will all stumble across one another at some point.
—Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2021
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For people who stumble onto the Dudesy podcast without any context, the magical realism of the Dudesy AI can be a bit confusing.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
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Patrons, shoppers, and guests could stumble upon everything from an Eames whale, to a Noguchi lamp, to a 1950s Scandinavian textile.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 June 2023
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The film follows a group of teenage girls of various ages who stumble upon an alien invasion while traversing the arctic wilderness near their town of Pangnirtung.
—Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
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Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong star in a musical comedy about a couple who stumble across a town that seems to be a classic musical come to life.
—oregonlive, 2 June 2021
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The premise brings singles who didn't find lasting love on the original shows to a beach vacation to mingle with one another and hopefully stumble upon a better match.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
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The twosome meet up with Ayaka’s eccentric friends at a sushi restaurant (the funniest sequence) and then stumble upon a game-changing discovery.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
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Bluesky is currently in an adolescent phase, so users who have access to it are prone to stumble upon glitches and other aspects of the platform that need some development.
—Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 8 June 2023
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Young musicians still learning their way around an instrument are often more likely to stumble across a really cool idea, Cooper says.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2024
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As for the reasons why its first settlers stopped at the island, O’Connor believes that, contrary to some earlier opinions, the inhabitants didn’t randomly stumble upon it.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2024
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But a recent stumble on the executive jet's stairs ignited fresh concerns about his fitness and scrutiny of the way the White House is managing the optics of the nation's oldest president.
—Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2021
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That was the question posed by a Globe reader last year for an ongoing series exploring the strange, peculiar, and mysterious sights people stumble across in Boston and beyond.
—Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2021
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