shambling

Example Sentences

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Still, the KGB was watching, and Miller, shambling, bitter and broke, made a tempting target.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

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

From Salon • Aug. 19, 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

In the taxonomy of horror, its undead are “fast zombies,” as opposed to the shambling hordes in old-time creature features.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

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