shambling

Example Sentences

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Sometimes that’s because the individual work is bland, while elsewhere its pertinence to the shambling theme is stretched to the breaking point.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

She seemed to be everything that I, a shambling, spit up-stained wreck, was not.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 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

No sooner had they stopped than the press began to thicken around them, as more and more of the afflicted came limping and shambling toward the wagons.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin