Noun : We completed the difficult experiment without a fumble.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to fumble an attempt; He fumbled his way through the crowded room.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : She fumbled in her purse for the keys.    From Dictionary.com. 

But with the spectre of The Hague on the horizon, perhaps this desperate, defensive fumbling is all it has left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

The usual pre-conference call fumbling ensued … waiting for the principle speakers to depart a press conference, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

Is there a good touchstone that the newspaper industry is kind of fumbling toward to understand where we draw the line?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT Co.’s top lawyer doubts that aggregation is a copyright issue » Nieman Journalism Lab] Reference

The film portrayed him as a kind of fumbling, bumbling, absent-minded academic; a peripheral satellite to the wondrous Iris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

And you say I am "fumbling" for a way to get back at you.    From Wordnik.com.  [MVN] Reference

So unless you tell us what it is we ` re kind of fumbling around in the dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [TechSpot] Reference

And if it's really something that I need to look up right then and there, I don't mind the "fumbling".    From Wordnik.com.  [Joystiq] Reference

"We're all kind of fumbling in the dark, but I definitely think there's a big business to be built here," Jacobs says.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyAppleMenu] Reference

Let’s pause, and listen to the sanity of a True American Patriot, Russ Feingold such a contrast to the bumbling, word fumbling Shrub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » McCain Flip Flops, Now Says He Would Not Consider Redeployment Under Any Scenario] Reference

"fumbling" with them if they have to answer a call.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal-Standard Homepage RSS] Reference

I recall fumbling for an answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lesson Plan] Reference

Plus, you often wind up fumbling with the headset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Distracted Driving Summit: The hands-free debate] Reference

Some thump fumbling seemed to come from downstairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shreds of Flame] Reference

After a bit of fumbling with the lock, she gets in the door.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Villages' Help Neighbors Age At Home] Reference

For his fumbling of Webster's appointment, Pitt earns a clear F.    From Wordnik.com.  [Failing Grade] Reference

He's fumbling through his sentences like a dyslexic third grader.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Spent My Summer Vacation... When I Wasn't Drinking] Reference

I hear Louise fumbling and I know she's pulled her binoculars out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nigtingale] Reference

And poor Obama has once again been fumbling around this fine line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas de Zengotita: Postmodern Politics and the Ground Zero Mosque Issue] Reference

Forget all the fumbling normally associated with fold-up road maps.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Turn Left On Main Street'] Reference

And less than six weeks out of the gate the kitchen is still fumbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haute Cuisine Heats Up] Reference

Soon after, I see him fumbling for remote searching for David Letterman.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference

When it comes to birth control, Americans are still fumbling in the dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Fumbling In The Dark] Reference

He could blame Congress for fumbling away the opportunity for real reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Rattle For Health Reform] Reference

It's more than can be said for fumbling efforts to transform India's power sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power Outage] Reference

She starts to unlock it, drawing out her movements, fumbling with the lock on purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dudes Who Want To Be Her Boyfriend] Reference

Finally, after some fumbling, she found a table lamp, whose dangling chain she pulled out.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference

That's a plausible reading, anyway, of their fumbling explanations for last week's verdict.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price Of Neglect] Reference

He needs to talk with Tiki Barber ASAP to find out how Barber corrected his fumbling issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthy Vikes will contend] Reference

If it works on people, it could be at least as effective as a condom and cause a lot less fumbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Don't Like Implants...] Reference

With an earpiece that doubles as a microphone and a speaker, it helps end dangerous phone fumbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hearing Is Believing] Reference

For all his fumbling, Blackmun might have been able to justify Roe as a ruling not really about abortion at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Roe Good Law?] Reference

The gap is also partly a result of administration fumbling over legal authorization for eavesdropping by U.S. agencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [An 'Intel Gap': What We're Missing] Reference