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

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

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

For some reason, I arrived when all the sidewalks had been pulled up, rendering the only refuge from the city’s murderous traffic a shambling crater-scape.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro