shamble

In my review, I praised the conviction of Gunn’s soupy sci-fi spectacle, writing: “Whatever this sweet, surreal sci-fi shamble is that Gunn has created, everyone here seems to believe ardently in it.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

“It’s crazy, because retail was in such a shamble of reality at that point,” says S.P.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

There is an enjoyable strain of LA neo-noirs such as Inherent Vice, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Under the Silver Lake where doofus would-be detectives shamble into morally murky conspiracies.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

Even as its various subplots shamble on, the novel keeps reminding us about the rising conflation of reality and fiction.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2019

We approached the lonely inn as ragged ghouls shamble up to a gravekeeper’s door.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

In reality, the organisation was a shambles, a member of the Benin delegation told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

For Mr. Craighead, the British army was his escape from the shambles of his childhood in northern England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Power outages have been a feature of life for years in Cuba, where the electricity generation system, composed mainly of dilapidated Soviet-era plants, is in shambles.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Behind the scenes, Gibbard’s personal life was in shambles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

It was in shambles, but he’d seen worse this summer on the sightseeing trips his cousins had taken him on.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

But Barbara Slaine was sitting on the ground at a California farm last year when a turkey named Sun shambled over and climbed into her lap.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022

A dozen dolphins leaped and spun alongside the boat as Capt. Sean Rubino — known to everyone as Bobby Hill for the cartoon character he resembles — shambled down to chum the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

Exhausted junior doctors shambled in after shifts with their sleeves pushed up.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020

Meanwhile, as Kyoto shambled on, the horizon receded.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015

Then silence, a very long silence, and—wait, shhhhh...yes!—the unutterable relief of realizing that the bear has withdrawn to the other side of the camp or shambled back into the woods.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

They’re an exuberant bunch, especially Chase Culp’s shambling clown.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

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

Richie Bravo, the aging Austrian lounge singer shambling his way through Ulrich Seidl’s grimly fascinating new movie, “Rimini,” sure knows his way around a crummy hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

A big-bellied, shambling hulk of a man, the sellsword had a seamed face crisscrossed with old scars.

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