shamble

When Hurricane Gustav struck the Gulf Coast in 2008, leaving more than 100,000 Louisiana customers without power for over a week, Entergy’s grid was in shambles.

At least 21 people are dead, hundreds of homes are in shambles and the wreckage of people’s lives is strewn across the landscape.

My supposition is that North Korea does not want to be 90% dependent upon China for its economy, which is currently in a shambles under those circumstances, and is seeking a different kind of independence.

With his emotional life in shambles, Pauli took up drinking and smoking heavily.

The resulting chaos has left nearly 200,000 Americans dead and the economy in shambles.

The deck of the Frenchman was truly a shamble; not a spot appeared free from some dead or wounded occupant.

The men were past revolt now, they could only shamble dizzily about.

They could not walk, they could only shamble; they could not laugh, they could only leer.

His knees still knocked together in a loathsome paralysis, but he made effort to shamble forward.

It is called Shamble Oak because a butcher once used its hollow trunk to conceal stolen sheep.