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Main Entry:	sham·ble [sham-buhl] /ˈʃæmbəl/ Show Spelled
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Main Entry:	shambles
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Example Sentences

Startz had committed suicide, his practice and reputation in shambles.

He added that the higher-education system was in a shambles because of frequent monetary reductions.

Go while people remember your achievements, not when they blame you for the shambles you leave behind.

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Startz had committed suicide, his practice and reputation in shambles.

He added that the higher-education system was in a shambles because of frequent monetary reductions.

Go while people remember your achievements, not when they blame you for the shambles you leave behind.

Overly restrictive licensing and smotheringly broad patent interpretations could make a shambles of synthetic biology.

As if the world economy isn't in shambles as it is currently, flooding the market with diamonds can't help matters too much.

The system would be a shambles if all judges did that.

Still, there are things that should be done to avoid an utter legal shambles and administer some justice.

Forgot to mention, however, the economy is in shambles.

Canada's policy on emissions has long been a shambles.

It was a shambles and had been evacuated only hours before.

Shared governance is in a shambles and the cut and gut mainia rules supreme.

The main political parties are milking the shambles for all they can.

Iraq is considered irrelevant for now because its oil sector is in a shambles.

The logistical details of dispersal have also been a bit of a shambles.

More important, the states' tax-raising systems are a shambles.

Just as damaging are revelations of corruption that lie behind the shambles.

Several homes were left in shambles one to two miles from the explosion and rolling pasture was charred.

Just because the economy is in a shambles does not mean that manners and etiquette no longer matter.

Now his life is in shambles as he fights for his freedom.

In one story a mayor whose city is in shambles takes time out to deliver a two-page speech on legalizing gay marriage.

States in economic shambles become the weakest link in the chain.

Our nation's property insurance system is in shambles.

Once the subsidies ended this year, the economy is in shambles and people have started protesting.

The amiable torpor of the film is left in a shambles after each of his scenes.

Even with judicial blessing, the conduct of executions in this country is a shambles.

But officials are planning to go beyond the forklifts that are moving through a shambles of collapsed buildings.

In much of the nation the public education system is in shambles.

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