An enormous trailer-truck combination came bumbling toward them.
Bees bumbled among the flowers and flew past, laden.
The squadron, though, went bumbling upward.
Well, dearie, dearie me, the sight of you is good for tired eyes, Charlotte, she bumbled in her rich, deep old voice.
When the shadow of a branch would cross that slowly lumbering vehicle, the swarm would rise and bumble around distractedly for a moment before settling down again.
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There is something terrible about seeing others go about life with rational deliberateness while we continue tobumblearound.
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The other camouflage was the removal of the ground bass, or rather, its elaboration as a bumbling lower part.
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Pouvreau (1974) briefly summarized the information on parasitoids ofbumblebees.
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They are inclined tobumblealong in their own sweet way.
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I know that he is trying to be helpful, but he must let me get on o my own bumbling way.
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Together with the marvellous processes of nature these things make farming, in mybumbleopinion, one of the most fascinating of occupations.
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Webumbleabout, think about fairness, precedents and all the rest of it, and of course get nowhere.
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Last week's episode was characterised by bumbling ineptitude.
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We have had bumbling amateurism for far too long in town halls the length and breadth of this land.
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I cannot conceive why that should be regarded as bumbling and bodging.
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The truth is that his handling of the teachers' dispute has been insensitive, bumbling and highly damaging to the education of our children.
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He bumbled along from one subject to another.
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There the train bumbles along rather like a school bus.
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This is not a matter on which the country will indefinitely tolerate bumbling along at the pace to which they are accustomed.
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If we go bumbling about and not making up our minds, we shall drift on until we come into the most appalling disaster.
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