fumble

Object

• ball: A costly error by France as they fumbled the ball allowed England to hack the ball up field.
• finger: Fumbling fingers feel the thin ribbon that binds My parcel.
• catch: Another scare came from Charlton after 68 minutes, when Cope fumbled a regulation catch from a corner.
• attempt: It has been designed to accompany your child from the earliest, fumbling attempts to control fingers, right through to adulthood.
• shot: City missed a further good opportunity when Cairns nipped the ball away from the keeper after he had fumbled a long shot.
• cross: Mark Arber found the net from close range after the usually reliable Brentford stopper Paul Smith fumbled a cross.

Subject

• keeper: Minutes later a Michael Fuller shot was fumbled by the keeper and Dan Del Duca tapped the ball in from close range.

Adjective modifier

• drunken: Well, what it's NOT is a drunken fumble at the firm's Christmas party.

Modifying Another Word

• about: After fumbling about for a bit he tried a second, and then a third.
• still: Future generations will still fumble to understand what happened today.
• n't: Plus he did n't fumble at the steal, no edges peeking, no telling movements... All in all a good effort.
• badly: In full view of nearly 40,000 people he fumbled badly to present Leeds with their first goal.
• not: We include the hymns so that people are not fumbling through hymn books trying to find the next hymn.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Gone are the days of fumbling around for a lead to upload your digital photos onto a computer.

Infinitive complement

• find: No shaking the camera or time lost fumbling to find the right button to zoom in or zoom out.

Preposition: in

• dark: The learner is left fumbling in the dark without a guide.

Preposition: for

• key: Forget the days of worrying about the rain or the cold winter winds whilst fumbling for keys in the dark nights.
• change: Reaching into my pocket, I fumbled for some change.
• switch: His fingers fumbled for the switch on the wall, then he blinked at the explosion of light.

Preposition: by

• keeper: Windsor tried to fight back with Simon Elcombe almost getting on the end of a fumble by keeper Nick Gindre.