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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Endured a textbook shambles on the day of the deadline itself.
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
The shambling Cliff and the spiky Didi make for an odd couple.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The Walking Dead keeps shambling along, now splintered into a bunch of pretty lackluster spinoffs.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Gone were the slow, shambling monsters that George A. Romero’s 1968 classic The Night of the Living Dead had established as the zombie status quo.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 June 2025
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
The shambling Cliff and the spiky Didi make for an odd couple.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
The Walking Dead keeps shambling along, now splintered into a bunch of pretty lackluster spinoffs.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Gone were the slow, shambling monsters that George A. Romero’s 1968 classic The Night of the Living Dead had established as the zombie status quo.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 June 2025
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“Shamble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shamble. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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