shambles

Example Sentences

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Under US pressure, she is grappling with leading a country saddled with the world's largest proven oil reserves but an economy in shambles.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

"It was just a shambles on the day that she died," Kay said.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Experts say these policy shifts have broken a student loan system that was already in shambles, leaving nearly 45 million borrowers, disproportionately women, in financial and emotional distress.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Much of the Chicago public school system is in shambles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Following the Civil War, the economic and political infrastructure of the South was in shambles.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander