Sentences with phrase «stumbling over»

Special mention must also be given to the brilliant burbles that emanate from the mouth of Octodad, whether they be because of his stumbling over something or by way of harried explanation to his kids, I couldn't help but grin every time the game provided a vague subtitle explaining what his watery vocals were saying.

But now, people are stumbling over each other trying to get to Dubai at least once in their life.

There hadn't been a path for a good hour and we made our way slowly stumbling over the marshy pastures and the rocky lake shore.

We had a moment like that every day because every day it was as though we lived twice: once in the mountains on the trail, just with ourselves and what we carried, and once at night in the towns, stumbling over Arabic conjugations and appropriate manners or camping out under a sea of stars in the desert.

The first few times, you will be stumbling over your puppy.

My Google - fu failed me finding any sort of ready - made answer (although I did keep stumbling over that same 80 % figure being mentioned; for example in this thread from 2011).

Yes, it should be professional enough so your readers are enjoying the words, not stumbling over them.

This year I finally took the plunge and wrote a book, something I always wanted to do but kept stumbling over when it came to putting words on a page.

When I tried to type quickly on the 10FastFingers.com typing test, I found my fingers stumbling over each other and was able to produce only 68 words per minute, a drop from my 80 - wpm average.

With the Age of Ultron event finally stumbling over the finish line, the Marvel faithful breathe a sigh of relief as one of the most inconsistent and dollar - centric events comes to a close.

I'm still learning daily and stumbling over mistakes.

I have had to endure a week long phone relay race which I finally completed by stumbling over the finish line exhausted and angry.

The hookers and bums from that part of town had simply migrated to this part of town, and nothing had changed at all: city officials said wow, look what we did, now people can walk up Larimer Street without stumbling over drunks and whores, but here they still were.

A friend of mine recently asked about the difference between flash fiction and prose poetry and I found myself, somewhat embarrassingly, stumbling over words.

It feels like the truck is stumbling over itself especially if you need to stop quickly.

Automakers are still stumbling over how to let passengers watch movies, videoconference, or simply dial in navigation destinations when the car is moving.

For such a small car, the 2012 Mini Cooper Coupe John Cooper Works has got a stupidly long name that's nearly impossible to speak casually without stumbling over all of the «coo» syllables.

And because Rhee and Henderson effectively controlled the investigations of the cheating (and hired Cavern, infamous for stumbling over clues without seeing them), nothing came of those efforts either.

The Covington youngsters regularly pulled up an array of charts that showed them which math concepts they had mastered and which they were working on, needed to review, or were stumbling over.

Yet the opening hour treads such familiar territory, stumbling over more than a few wider Superhero clichés, you'll find yourself impatiently wishing him into the impossible - for - any - teenage - boy - to - ever - weave - anything - so - intricate spandex and just bloody well get on with it.

Once the bank job goes south, the film stays on the move, running, punching, tumbling and stumbling over 24 hours as the fallout drags us through streets, vehicles, homes, jail, a hospital, a theme park and more.

The finale, involving a simultaneous raid by agents of the DEA, the ATF, the FBI, and Arkansas state police — where Barry has set up his smuggler's headquarters — is like a clown car of law enforcement descending and stumbling over one another.

It's unfortunately once he steps foot on Ohio State campus where the film starts stumbling over its feet uncontrollably.

Blooper specials of stars flubbing their lines and stumbling over props have trivialized the impact of outtakes — seeing makeup applied to the president's face hardly demystifies the oval office.

We're through stumbling over Apichatpong Weerasethakul's name.

That's where they begin stumbling over one another for the affections of a fellow passenger (Matt Barr).

The path to Doug frantically motors the trio all over the city, dealing with Tysonâ $ ™ s animal demands (The Champ nabs big laughs playing his Phil Collins - loving self), random flashes of unlikely gangster violence, and their own bewilderment as they canâ $ ™ t quite grasp the enormity of their evening, frequently stumbling over immeasurable trouble the mild - mannered guys canâ $ ™ t believe they caused.

With regards to rich men dating, being well off can abandon you stumbling over your own benefits.

By this point all I had drunk was diet coke, and yet I heard myself stumbling over my words, and stuttering a bit.

Since I keep stumbling over all these things that would make perfect gifts for cat lovers, I figured ah what the heck, I am going to make a proper gift guide out of it.

I wish this had occurred to me in college, when I was one of many girls in high heels stumbling over the crumbling brick sidewalks on the way to the bars.

The hours you waste stumbling over your piled debris, picking, washing, storing, re-storing, those are hours and spaces that you will never get back in a mortal lifetime... Every moment you devote to them is lost to your children, your friends, your society, yourself.»

Stumbling over Plants To be fair, these student volunteers were not biology majors.

They were smarter than me; these scientists just didn't know that the coding issue they were stumbling over had already been solved.»

With clinical precision, Hancock noted how his sense of balance was no longer the same: «I was stumbling over things that I wouldn't ordinarily have done.»

By contrast, the Democratic machine has cleared the field for its own legacy candidate, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has only to avoid stumbling over a socialist from Vermont and a governor from Maryland whose home city was in flames just months ago.

The New York Times on Friday posted a video from a Success Academy school that shows a teacher harshly reprimanding and shaming a first - grader for stumbling over a math problem.

He has a proper moment stumbling over it.

As political theatre goes, it was bizarre, like an amateur production of a Jacobean melodrama: bodies piling up all over the stage; actors stumbling over the corpses and missing their cues; tragedy turning to farce.

However, a series of missteps by the challenger, including stumbling over the definition of a trade agreement during an on - camera interview on NY1 and then bragging at a press conference that organizing a student exchange program in Japan gave him the necessary credentials to deal with important international issues, appeared to have hurt his chances.

An interviewer gets the same answer to five different questions with the added bonus of our guy stumbling over his words, apologising and stifling a giggle.

When it hits, I feel so out of control like I'm stumbling over the edge of a cliff without a rope.

That's a lot to live in, and we're always stumbling over toys.»

It's your baby — your precious baby who means the world to you — that they're scrutinizing, and you'll find yourself stumbling over your words as you look over at your child and try to explain what the problem is.

If your child is truly stuttering (and not just stumbling over words occasionally), he may drag out the first sound in a word, saying «ssssoda,» or repeat the sound, as in «Sh - sh - she's nice!»

British pundits and fans struggle with even the simplest foreign name, stumbling over accents silent vowels and a plethora of other factors that mean that we rarely pronounce a players surname the way they do in his homeland.

During a recent NASCAR race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, the aptly named QuickTrip 500 to be precise, an eight - car pileup caused a caution and this unlucky official was caught stumbling over his own feet after probably what he hoped would be a quick and smooth collection of a piece of debris.

You can't pick up a copy of The Wall Street Journal or Popular Mechanics or The Plumbers Friend without stumbling over a story on jogging.

so long to the days of stumbling over a random recipe that sounded delicious, but turned out horrible and / or inedible... leaving the novice baker to wonder whether it was the recipe or them... you have bestowed upon hopeless me: skills, courage, empowerment and more than a few genuine laughing - out - loud moments based on silly confessions.

However, I think that it would be unrealistic to think that you could start a business without stumbling over such hurdles, and it is how they are overcome which is important.