[
US
/ˈʃæmbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ʃˈæmbəl/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈæmbəl/ ]
NOUN
-
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
from his shambling I assumed he was very old
VERB
-
walk by dragging one's feet
he shuffled out of the room
We heard his feet shuffling down the hall
How To Use shamble In A Sentence
- I have not seen such a drunken shambles for ages - he was really struggling, slurring his words, the lot.
- What a complete and utter shambles. Times, Sunday Times
- Desire kept his head down and held his gait to an ordinary shamble, all to come as close as he could. HAMMERFALL
- An emergency squad of 600 plumbers and electricians has been drafted in to repair the shambles. The Sun
- I mean, hell, if I was accused of molesting children, had a face falling apart, a career in shambles, and had become a mockery of my former self, I'd be on drugs too. Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09
- As they watched, one of the players shambled over to the jukebox and fed a handful of coins into it.
- Instead of falling dead, though, the figure shambled after his head.
- The room was in shambles and their master laid crumpled and bleeding on the floor.
- Gardiner, reinforced by so-called sportsmen from other parts of the state, of all the park elk they could kill, -- bulls, cows and calves, -- because a large band wandered across the line into the shambles of Gardiner, on Buffalo Flats. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
- In the Little Shambles, too, there are many curious details in the high gables, pargeting and oriel windows. Yorkshire
