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

Four years later, Oliver returned to the subject on Sunday, because “while we predicted the whole thing would be a shamble, the extent to which that’s been true even we didn’t see coming.”

From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 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

Once, Tendai looked behind to see one of the vlei people detach himself from the wall and shamble over to the cart.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

His Bedouin ancestors earned great wealth pearl diving—until foreign farmed pearls tanked the market and left the local economy in shambles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

"As a still developing country we have limited containment capacity... Our public health sector is in shambles," said a nurse in Nairobi, who asked for anonymity.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

"Our economy is in a shambles, society is deeply divided, we are facing two insurgencies," Farooq says.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

He saw Brother Eugene still standing there in the midst of the shambles, tears actually running down his cheeks.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

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

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020

The group sometimes shambled into a free-flowing rubato right in the middle of a fast tune, but it maintained conviction, and avoided melodrama.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2018

Meanwhile, as Kyoto shambled on, the horizon receded.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015

As a stripling in his late 70s, he shambled convincingly as the 87-year-old Firs in the Taper's 2006 revival of "The Cherry Orchard."

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2015

And the aged lord, without a word, shambled silently away, his old velvet shoes flapping and off at his heels, coughing as he went.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

They also represent a change in the way that Gimple, the franchise's chief content officer, envisions "The Walking Dead" shambling forward.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 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

This was the shambling, full system malfunction of a body and brain that could no longer outrun its own basic need for rest.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023

When they had hidden the treasures in a nearby cave they separated, she to summon Telemachus home, he, whom her art had turned into a shambling ragged old man, to seek the swineherd.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton