bumble - use in sentences

Object

  • bee: Sir Martin Doughty, English Nature's Chair said, " The bumble bee is right at the heart of a healthy garden.
  • foot: Saskia had an ongoing problem with chronic bumble foot.
  • detective: He ran away from home, and created a new identity working as an assistant for bumbling detective Kuruma Jo.
  • assistant: He has two bumbling assistants to hinder his progress.

Preposition: through

  • life: The heroic Greek warrior becomes a wet and weedy wimp, who bumbles through life killing the Gorgons by accident.

Modifying Another Word

  • somewhat: He is joined by the somewhat bumbling friend Capt. May played by Neil Stuke.

Adjective modifier

  • humble: Conservation Considerations In East London, the decline of the humble bumble is overwhelmingly the result of wasteland loss to development.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • off: We played with the seals for about half an hour before bumbling off and surfacing.

Modifies a noun

  • bee: Often a mass of plants grow in the same area maximizing the visual signal to passing Bumble bees.

Modifying Another Word

  • about: I bumble about, failing to find ropes of any sort of useful length.
  • then: Many people train to be hypnotherapists and then bumble their way through a couple of years before deciding to give up.
  • happily: BB is a happy and tolerant wee thing tho, and does quite happily bumble about.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • along: We'll bumble along together ' Cause you're my Honey Bee!
  • through: If they are untrained they will bumble through to the answer somehow or other.

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