shamble

When most bands would just sort of shamble onstage in their street clothes, you guys really put on a proper show, a presentation with choreography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

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

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

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

Pepe Di'Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the delay was a "complete shambles" which would "inevitably" lead to staff working through their holiday period to finish end-of-year assessments.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

Almost no new furniture, two bedrooms turned into the familiar shambles of clothes and books, not the slightest domestic touch in the apartment.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

In the title story, adman Bill Whitman — note the surname — dishes a contemplative collage of ex-wives and ex-friends, a resigned and almost free-associative appraisal of his shambled past.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 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

The afternoon before, as Bouchard worked out in the gym, another man, tall and bearish with a soft voice, shambled over to Leclair — what an incredible coincidence to run into her there!

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

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

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

As Hagen, the production’s linchpin, the bass Mika Kares, a newcomer to the cast, was most memorable: aggressive and doleful, stony and agonized, shambling around the set like the overgrown child he is.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

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

Aurelia glanced unseeingly at the huge shambling animal, but she didn’t wait to see it go through its weary tricks, restoring the old carefree spirit to the great audience.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks