fumble around , auch: fumble about

He had to fumble around in the dark for a moment to find out.

She wasn't going to go fumbling around the next time something happened.

"Think you can get it open without too much fumbling around?"

"Working on that, but the police here are fumbling around some."

He made some show of fumbling around with the bar on the door.

Some time later I felt him fumbling around with my clothes.

In a long story, you can fumble around, waste time, never really get to the point.

She fumbled around the night table, looking for a cigarette.

Then he fumbled around on the ground for his glasses.

Again, you don't want to find yourself fumbling around with those features when you're on the road.

He went to his pack, fumbled around inside it, then looked up.

She fumbled around among some change and came out with the knife.

"Oh, no." He pulled out of me and fumbled around a lot for the second time.

She fumbled around in his trousers and then looked up at him.

She went into the back room, came out with her purse, fumbled around.

At the end of three hundred years, however, he still appears to be fumbling around trying to figure out what to do next.

He worked it down to the lock and began to fumble around.

I hesitated, kind of fumbling around for something to say.

He added, "It's taken a week of fumbling around to get to where we are."

I just fumble around and make a nuisance of myself.

I don't wait for a man to make a pass; they fumble around and waste time.

Trying to recall certain laws and fumbling around with them.

Held it that way while I fumbled around for a cigarette.

"I remember because she had some trouble fumbling around in her purse."

She fumbled around and found a newspaper on the dirty floor.