shambles

[ US /ˈʃæmbəɫz/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈæmbə‍lz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a building where animals are butchered
  2. a condition of great disorder
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How To Use shambles 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Around 7000 fans have voiced their opinions on the Scottish football omnishambles through the SFA's national fans survey.
  • Its times like this i thank God i was born and bred in Aus! why is it when someone complains about, the mess around our island someone else has to try and turn the whole scene around, justiffing what is true and what is not. we dont need photos to poove a point? just walk down the sliema / gzira sea front after a saterday or sunday evening and open your eyes. its a shambles. plastic bottles undar benches. waste from take aways ect. Timesofmalta.com
  • He said: 'It was a shambles on air. Times, Sunday Times
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