shamble

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

Drawing from Korean folktale and Chung’s expertise as a Slavic literature professor, the narratives here shamble and ooze across a porous divide between highbrow absurdism and lowbrow jump scare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

Four years later, Oliver returned to the subject on Sunday, because “while we predicted the whole thing would be a shamble, the extent to which that’s been true even we didn’t see coming.”

From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2020

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

Once, Tendai looked behind to see one of the vlei people detach himself from the wall and shamble over to the cart.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

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

His Bedouin ancestors earned great wealth pearl diving—until foreign farmed pearls tanked the market and left the local economy in shambles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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

"As a still developing country we have limited containment capacity... Our public health sector is in shambles," said a nurse in Nairobi, who asked for anonymity.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

His business in shambles, he decided he had nothing to lose by following his dream of a full-time writing career.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

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

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.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2018

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

Then silence, a very long silence, and—wait, shhhhh...yes!—the unutterable relief of realizing that the bear has withdrawn to the other side of the camp or shambled back into the woods.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

They’re an exuberant bunch, especially Chase Culp’s shambling clown.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

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

And I'm shambling through my daily French lessons not because I have to, and not even because I hope they help my brain stay a little bit sharper.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 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

It had breath and claws, and it moved in an odd shambling walk, growling to itself while the spit trailed from its muzzle.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver