Synonyms
Examples of shamble in a Sentence
He shambled into the room.
disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room
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Ray Fisher incarnates, with natural majesty, the brawn and bravado of Muhammad Ali; Edwin Lee Gibson shambles and stammers as Stepin Fetchit while retaining the dignity of a canny survivor.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
That baggy, shambling gang of tuneless no-hopers swept along on the glassy-eyed tide of post-acid house euphoria?
—Jonathan Bernstein, SPIN, 7 June 2023
The franchise's latest spinoff, The Walking Dead: Dead City, which sics its shambling hordes on New York City, premieres this summer.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 11 May 2023
With zombie stories saturating popular culture, the lore in TV and film began to expand beyond the simple trope of shambling brain eaters.
—Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
Since the nine-episode first season tackled the main events of 2013's The Last of Us video game and the Left Behind DLC, a 2014 side story players could download separately, season 2 will begin to translate the events of The Last of Us Part II, the sequel that shambled onto the PlayStation in 2020.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
Past games, including the successful remakes of the second and third sequels, featured brainless zombies and other monsters shambling and shuffling toward the player.
—Gene Park, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
Left 4 Dead has been left for dead by Valve, which led many fans to believe their dreams for four-player co-op zombie-killing campaigns may never shamble into the light of day.
—Brittany Vincent, BGR, 22 Oct. 2021
After jettisoning their genetic blueprints, certain neutrophils will shamble onward, still trying to slurp up stray microbes that their web didn’t catch.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
That baggy, shambling gang of tuneless no-hopers swept along on the glassy-eyed tide of post-acid house euphoria?
—Jonathan Bernstein, SPIN, 7 June 2023
The franchise's latest spinoff, The Walking Dead: Dead City, which sics its shambling hordes on New York City, premieres this summer.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 11 May 2023
With zombie stories saturating popular culture, the lore in TV and film began to expand beyond the simple trope of shambling brain eaters.
—Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
Since the nine-episode first season tackled the main events of 2013's The Last of Us video game and the Left Behind DLC, a 2014 side story players could download separately, season 2 will begin to translate the events of The Last of Us Part II, the sequel that shambled onto the PlayStation in 2020.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
Past games, including the successful remakes of the second and third sequels, featured brainless zombies and other monsters shambling and shuffling toward the player.
—Gene Park, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
Left 4 Dead has been left for dead by Valve, which led many fans to believe their dreams for four-player co-op zombie-killing campaigns may never shamble into the light of day.
—Brittany Vincent, BGR, 22 Oct. 2021
After jettisoning their genetic blueprints, certain neutrophils will shamble onward, still trying to slurp up stray microbes that their web didn’t catch.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
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Word History
Etymology
shamble bowed, malformed
First Known Use
1717, in the meaning defined above
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“Shamble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shamble. Accessed 22 Sep. 2023.
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