The team stumbled badly at the start of the season.

He was stumbling badly along a path that had been easy going the night before.

The city stumbled badly in the fall when it negotiated a 5.5 percent increase.

But after a promising start, he stumbled badly in regard to policy and performance.

Despite their huge budget, the tobacco interests have stumbled badly in the campaign against the tax.

Q. Last summer, technology stocks stumbled badly, along with everything else.

Its quest for a common foreign and security policy stumbled badly in Bosnia.

Malga and the rest were out in the street, a few of them stumbling badly.

A younger generation fought so much among themselves, however, that the family's sports car company stumbled badly.

He stumbled badly in each case, digging himself a deeper hole.