How to Use shamble in a Sentence

shamble

verb
Definition of shamblenext
Synonyms for shamblenext
  • He shambled into the room.
  • But with her gift for melody and affection for shambling folk, Pleasure still warms the soul.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 28 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, their own candidate shambles around with his pants on fire all day, every day.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sunday’s Walking Dead Season 8 premiere shambled down to a five-season ratings low.
    — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 24 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • One might imagine that for the president, who has struggled to push his top priorities through over a shambling seven months in office, this would be cause for celebration and horn-tooting.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • McConnell’s stiff, dry demeanor is worlds away from Trump’s shambling vulgarity—their histories and philosophies rhyme in curious ways.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • Fortunately, Pacino isn’t dialing things up in his big return to the screen—his detective Frank Keller is a charming, but shambling screw-up, a perfect noir hero in what amounts to a solid genre exercise.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Oil giant Saudi Aramco’s potential $2 trillion initial public offering is shambling slowly off the stage.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • For Favreau, becoming a creative force within Disney has been one unexpected twist among many in an unlikely career that has taken him from shambling indie-comedy stalwart to blockbuster director.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • His diffidence blends well with his shambling characterization and Ford’s unhurried tempo.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018

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