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
• One of those learners might stumble upon their own improvement and pass it along in turn.
  — Eli Elster, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
• The shelter also shared a caveat for those who might stumble upon stray kittens.
  — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Texas lawmakers did not stumble upon these tactics on their own.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2023
• Make sure to have copies of any press release at your booth in case a journalist happens to stumble across your work.
  — Nancy Marshall, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
• And Jade Carey won gold on floor, but a stumble on the runway kept her from vying for a vault medal.
  — Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• Thomas watches as a naked virgin rides a horse, which is meant to stumble upon reaching the grave of a vampire.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
• Moments like a stumble on a stairway or a fall off a bike have attracted attention.
  — Katie Glueck, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• 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
• For example, humans who stumble upon a black skimmer’s nest will hustle out of the area.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
• Consonant-heavy words lumber and stumble across a bumpy verbal landscape.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 13 June 2025
• Those results may still prove to be little more than a stumble on the way to an all-European final four.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
• Even those who don't seek out racist rhetoric or propaganda stumble onto it, often through sites like 4chan.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• Moody got to the line to open the second half then hit a pull-up jumper, getting his defender to stumble on a drive in isolation.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Kho decided to withhold the photo from the print newspaper so readers wouldn’t stumble across it.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• One of the best parts of working for a local news outlet is we that staffers can stumble across a wonderful story just by living our lives.
  — Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 10 Aug. 2025
• In the United States, shoppers may stumble upon vintages from two to seven years old.
  — Jill Barth, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• And then there are those, like Mia, who stumble on their birth families inadvertently.
  — Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
• 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
• Things rarely work, and in the rare instance where bureaucrats stumble on something that does, politicians try to ruin it for everyone.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
• Lately, our go-to spot for savings has been Amazon’s outlet, where surprising finds are way too easy to stumble upon.
  — Clint Davis, People.com, 29 June 2025
• Now, how did the former reality star’s 8-year-old daughter stumble across the nearly 20-year-old song?
  — Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• If the mercy killing wasn’t a big enough of a twist, the introduction of three outsiders who stumble upon the girls’ cannibalistic feast will do it.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
• The map itself is a sprawling labyrinth of different areas with treasure to plunder and new gear to stumble across (a la Diablo).
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
• The film, set against the backdrop of modern-day Riyadh, centers on two paramedics who stumble upon a briefcase containing 2 million riyals.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2024
• The Village now looks like the original safe space, apart from the mainstream world and ready to help anyone reinvent themselves or stumble upon like-minded souls, face to face.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024