Examples of shamble in a Sentence
He shambled into the room.
disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room
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The left horse just wanted to shamble along, while the right horse pulled with frantic jerks.
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Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
One nickname — Zombie tranq — reflects shambling from deep sedation.
—Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025
Its ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
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Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
One nickname — Zombie tranq — reflects shambling from deep sedation.
—Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025
Its ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
See All Example Sentences for shamble
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“Shamble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shamble. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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