shamble

When most bands would just sort of shamble onstage in their street clothes, you guys really put on a proper show, a presentation with choreography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

In my review, I praised the conviction of Gunn’s soupy sci-fi spectacle, writing: “Whatever this sweet, surreal sci-fi shamble is that Gunn has created, everyone here seems to believe ardently in it.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

Even as its various subplots shamble on, the novel keeps reminding us about the rising conflation of reality and fiction.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2019

That's sad in some respects but, in another sense, allows the shows’ creators to bring the series to a worthy end as opposed to forcing it to shamble onward long past relevance.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2019

Zombie nouns, unlike the verbs whose bodies they snatched, can shamble around without subjects.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Comedian Joanne McNally agreed some players were "using him as a fall guy and a decoy," although she did admit later that he's "made such a shambles of it now".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

For Mr. Craighead, the British army was his escape from the shambles of his childhood in northern England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Power outages have been a feature of life for years in Cuba, where the electricity generation system, composed mainly of dilapidated Soviet-era plants, is in shambles.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Videos show horrifying, but now predictable, images of entire blocks flattened and basic infrastructure in shambles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

But after years of war it was in shambles and had to be shut down.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

A dozen dolphins leaped and spun alongside the boat as Capt. Sean Rubino — known to everyone as Bobby Hill for the cartoon character he resembles — shambled down to chum the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

Meanwhile, as Kyoto shambled on, the horizon receded.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015

The afternoon before, as Bouchard worked out in the gym, another man, tall and bearish with a soft voice, shambled over to Leclair — what an incredible coincidence to run into her there!

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

Eventually, a police officer shambled across the tarmac and returned my documents.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2014

“Well, I didn’t know that. I had only feebly shambled out there to rest a while. Occasionally a pedestrian happened along. Unfortunately for us, they did not seem to be in hot dog moods.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

They also represent a change in the way that Gimple, the franchise's chief content officer, envisions "The Walking Dead" shambling forward.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2024

The post, from someone claiming to work at Boeing, described the production of Boeing's 737 planes as "a rambling, shambling, disaster waiting to happen".

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024

This was the shambling, full system malfunction of a body and brain that could no longer outrun its own basic need for rest.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023

A shambling, melancholic truth-teller, with a talent for riling up censors, Levant said things that weren’t supposed to be spoken aloud on national TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

I make my way to the kitchenette, shambling a little, keeping my coat on because of the cold.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood