How to Use shamble in a Sentence

shamble

verb

• He shambled into the room.
• The left horse just wanted to shamble along, while the right horse pulled with frantic jerks.
  — Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
• Meanwhile, their own candidate shambles around with his pants on fire all day, every day.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• But with her gift for melody and affection for shambling folk, Pleasure still warms the soul.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2017
• 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 senseless armies of shambling corpses, all the nightmares of dead generations sliding out of our screens.
  — Laurie Penny, Wired, 30 Mar. 2020
• One approach is to adopt the mind of a tracker examining the scat of a shaggy, shambling woodland beast.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2017
• After a brief, shambling start before the band hits its stride, we’re flooded with the ecstasy of how as well as what Conor hears.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
• Julian’s shambling charm wears her down, the elder statesman challenging his younger peer’s view on their industry.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
• Hoffman’s salesman, a little guy accustomed to talking a big game, shambled into his boss’ office with right on his side.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• The games were briefly interrupted on this evening when half the children peeled off to greet and hug a shambling 68-year-old who’d arrived with his wife.
  — Austin Murphy, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Mariam is haunted by the ghost of her mother (Denmo Ibrahim), who shambles through the story like a zombie.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
• One nickname — Zombie tranq — reflects shambling from deep sedation.
  — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025
• The Walking Dead keeps shambling along, now splintered into a bunch of pretty lackluster spinoffs.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• At intervals John would shamble around the stage in a cruel parody of a disabled person, which in those days offended no one.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
• The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.
  — Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
• Sunday’s Walking Dead Season 8 premiere shambled down to a five-season ratings low.
  — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 24 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• This required better zombie thespians, well above the typical drooling norm for shambling undead types in lesser productions.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 July 2019
• An older, shambling Pericles (James Ridge) wrestles hardest with such questions, often looking on from the edge of the action.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Once the zombification spreads, the mayhem runs through Charleston's streets, providing a quaint frame to the usual scenes of shambling monsters chowing down on anyone who can't run fast enough.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• His diffidence blends well with his shambling characterization and Ford’s unhurried tempo.
  — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• Its ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
• Oil giant Saudi Aramco’s potential $2 trillion initial public offering is shambling slowly off the stage.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• Dressed in pointedly unglamorous, androgynous togs,anxiety-prone Rue shambles through her days in search of calm and connection and, top priority of all, a high that can quiet her gyrating mind.
  — Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, 9 May 2019
• Movies may have led you to believe heroic astronauts can slip on a space suit and leap to the rescue, but under current designs this would result in Brad Pitt clutching his joints and shambling to a very painful (if handsome) death.
  — Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• In the title story, adman Bill Whitman — note the surname — dishes a contemplative collage of ex-wives and ex-friends, a resigned and almost free-associative appraisal of his shambled past.
  — William Giraldi, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• Hand has been fascinated with Darger for decades, and places him at the center of this novel as another amateur detective who teams up — in his own awkward, puzzling, shambling way — with Pin to solve the case of the missing girl.
  — Amy Stewart, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019