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

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

Noun : We completed the difficult experiment without a fumble.    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

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

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

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

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