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
Everything was in shambles, set alight with fire and misted by smoke.
The civilian chief of the TU is a shambles and a liability and nobody wants to work under him, and the rumour machine spreads fast about what he’s like. Leave My Kitten Alone « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The countryside is a shambles, full of cut-throats and wild animals.
He said: 'This department is an utter shambles. Times, Sunday Times
A nation wondered what the next level up from omnishambles was.
But he had been sadly mistaken and his life was in a shambles now because of it.
The shambles has echoes of the tax credits fiasco which left families to survive on charity food parcels. The Sun
He was hauled before a court next morning which he claims was a shambles.
Alan Johnson admits Labour has been 'maladroit' in its handling of ministers to acknowledge they've made a shambles of immigration - and then two weekend, with the universal rejection of his international transaction WN.com - Articles related to Obesity in childhood
On a lunch-time it's never been easier to walk up the Shambles and its lying-in-wait cobbles since the early hours of the morning when balance aforethought may have been slightly influenced by a few tipsy tinctures.
So in a daze of confusion she entered her house to find her room in shambles and a shadow of a person sitting on her bed.
In this afternoon’s Queen Speech debate (quite how our esteemed representatives can spend two days debating seven minutes worth of platitudes is beyond me), the Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, described the Tories’ shambolic health policies as an ‘omnishambles’ - very ‘hip’ phraseology stolen from an Armando Ianucci penned Malcolm Tucker rant. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
Young Dick learned death — not the ordered, decent death of civilization, wherein doctors and nurses and hypodermics ease the stricken one into the darkness, and ceremony and function and flowers and undertaking institutions conspire to give a happy leave-taking and send-off to the departing shade, but sudden death, primitive death, ugly and ungarnished, like the death of a steer in the shambles or a fat swine stuck in the jugular. CHAPTER V
We don't know about you, but if we were anywhere near the band's equipment, we'd be trying to half-inch it, not destroy it but that may say more about us than the Babyshambles fans.
Compared to the omnishambles budget, tax credits is a blip. Times, Sunday Times
Against the most potent forward line in the country, what had been a shambles became a solid spine.
I don't see an argument here that the economy was in shambles until Dole and Gingrich took power in the Congress. Did the Bush Tax Cut Fail?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The NHS and education systems are a disgraceful shambles and the illegal asylum situation is not only a joke, it is dangerous.
Doherty fronts the Babyshambles, who he says won't stand for it if he slides back into drug abuse.
It was the year of the omnishambles budget. Times, Sunday Times
Infocult: keeping one eyestalk fixed on the economy as it shambles ever onward. Information, Culture, Policy, Education:
The meeting was a shambles from start to finish.
In 1853, Louisa Dalton Bird Cunningham was aboard a steamer on the Potomac sailing from Philadelphia to her plantation in South Carolina when she saw Mount Vernon in a shambles.
The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped. The Best American Poetry 2010
What few telecom stocks Peter had owned had gone south long ago, leaving his retirement scheme in a shambles. DEAD LINES
Currently the education system is in a shambles.
King, and turn the city into a shambles, "-- with a mighty oath --" he shall abye it. The Armourer's Prentices
It's less omnishambles, more omnirambles as everyone walks out. Times, Sunday Times
But as the movie shambles along, its title creeps up on it, wedgie-like. Vue Weekly
Our incompetent government politicians create omnishambles for a very simple reason—they are doing the wrong job.
With the private sector in shambles, the Federal government is the only one with enough juice left to fix anything. Notes On Obama's Press Conference - The Consumerist
The economy is in a complete shambles.
Forget the scare stories you heard when the lights went out: America's electrical grid isn't in a shambles.
An educational system based on survival of the fittest competition now in shambles: Think Progress » Bill’s Late Father Irving Kristol: ‘My Poor Son Has Got It Wrong Again’
The shambles has echoes of the tax credits fiasco which left families to survive on charity food parcels. The Sun
With daisywheel printed names for all the knobs, this looks like a bit of a shambles, and therefore intruiguing. EBay of the day: Crazy Homemade British Synth
Both acts performed on the Sunday of the event, Razorlight entertaining on the main stage whilst Babyshambles took to the NME / Radio 1 Stage.
The elf tried to get comfortable, turning and twisting until his bedroll was a shambles, then he had to sit up and untangle himself. Dragons of Winter Night
The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
This woman, this humourless bloodless shambles of a person, was entirely sure that the sign was not open to interpretation by her or anyone else.
A view of Victoria Street shows part of the cathedral and the Old Shambles area of the city blitzed by German bombers in the Second World War.
They are not just a shambles at the back but all over the pitch. The Sun
By the time Rex got things under control, the place was a shambles. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
I don't want to come home and find my half in a shambles.
But, reverting to the new phases in the ever-shifting emotionalism of a godless world, with which marriage has become a question of barter -- a mere lot-drawing of lambs for the shambles -- he compared the happy queenly life of our Irish mother with that of the victim of fashion, or that of uncatholic lands, where a poor girl passes from one state of slavery to another. My New Curate
Happy Mondays – Do It Better Mr Manshambles himself, Shaun William Ryder, garbles a long list of some things or other, but I was too busy doing a Bez to notice. Readers recommend: Songs about pubs and bars
All of which adds up to an utter shambles. Times, Sunday Times
That, of course, is what they said in baseball and now the sport is a discredited shambles.
The second is that the first scene is such a shambles it only makes any sense when you reach the end.
Another thirty - four wounded in the fighting, which left the area a shambles.
Farming, ironically, is the mainstay of the economy, but the agricultural sector is in shambles.
The place was a shambles; there had been turkeys in one room, pheasants in another. Times, Sunday Times
The press conference was a complete shambles.
The omnishambles at the Ministry of Defence is such that, astonishingly, it may have supplanted the Home Office as the government department least fit-for-purpose. The Chopper Wars
Once I have written this, it's enter soundtrack, cue vacuum, then it's curtains for this shambles.
Three-quarters of the ground is a shambles and consists of seats bolted to original terracing with a new roof.
He must certainly wish the clock was stuck in the omnishambles period. Times, Sunday Times
After the party, the house was a total/complete shambles.
With inflation running at 25 per cent, the economy is a shambles. Times, Sunday Times
The butchers' shambles, where animals were slaughtered and sold on Sundays, abutted the courthouse.
She must have walked for an hour or two, heading nowhere in particular, when she felt a weird, sudden urge to go to the Shambles, a local ruined building, with no roof.
Less than two weeks into the U.S. "intervasion" of Haiti, a hastily conceived plan that called for cooperation between Haitian security forces and U.S. troops was a shambles. Caught In The Middle
Every other coalition policy initiative has been an unmitigated omnishambles and this one is going to be different?
The change in course is the fourth major U-turn the Chancellor has made since his omnishambles Budget in March.
We regard the band as a thorough shambles.
Labour talk of a new train terminus, but our rail system is a shambles. The Sun
If I take up space here writing all the other theories that were once, supposedly, absolute and the foundation of all knowledge and which are now tottering if not in shambles, I'll say nothing else. [GUEST POST] Sarah A. Hoyt on The Death of Science Fiction: It Ain't Over Till The Fat Droid Sings
Tories called it 'a shambles '. The Sun
The economy is a shambles and money seems to be traded with little thought for disadvantaged members of society. The Sun
At the end of the line, the local authority careers service is called in to rescue what remains of this shambles.
In shambles, pavements once laid with tiles were chaotically dug up.
The roof of a beach house at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina sits in shambles August 27 due to high winds from Hurricane Irene.
It's been a dreadful year for the broadband industry, with DSL phone service, particularly, in a shambles.
The outwardly crisp style of government it satirised has descended into a very public ‘omnishambles’. Satire is dead
An emergency squad of 600 plumbers and electricians has been drafted in to repair the shambles. The Sun
He found the place 'an absolute shambles '. Times, Sunday Times
Alan Johnson admits Labour has been 'maladroit' in its handling of ministers to acknowledge they've made a shambles of immigration - and then two WN.com - Articles related to Walmart Black Friday 2009 ads sales full list of items
Our binmen have worked efficiently and cleanly over the years but the last few weeks have been a shambles as the new system gets under way.
His and Regina's bedroom was a shambles, but the twin-bedded room prepared for me was untouched. In The Frame
This whole business is a complete shambles and a total embarrassment. The Sun
Addressing this vexed issue has instead become something close to a shambles. Times, Sunday Times
The meeting was a shambles from start to finish.
With the economy in shambles, healthcare reform imploding and tax and spend Democrats running amok is the a newswothy story or just another cheesy photo-op for a pitiful president? Beer choice at Obama meeting touches off new debate
A few of the boldest and wisest forsook the fires of the gods, which had now become a shambles, and fled into the forest, where, in the end, they starved to death or were eaten by wolves. The Famine
Peter is not reduced to nervous shambles, he barks back at his guard and engineers a reasonable escape plan.
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The moucher now carries a bill-hook, and as he shambles along the road keeps a sharp look-out for briars. The Amateur Poacher
Still remaining are the constant reminders of the devastation left behind; trees left in branchless tangles, roofless shambles of hand-laid stone foundations of once century-old structures, empty weed-filled lots, the constant traffic and beeping of backhoes, and the bare slab foundations of what were once homes but now have only haunting stairways leading down to what were once basements that, luckily, saved the lives of many local residents. Michael DeJong: Greensburg: An Eco 9/11
Their use of the words "nurtured" and "rich" have a certain ironic flair considering Africville was in shambles, with no health services, sewage or running water. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
We reduced the place to a shambles. Christianity Today
Quite frankly, our elections have become an uncontrolled shambles.
She would do well to begin by asking them what they think of the utter shambles that is our public examinations system. Times, Sunday Times
He recovered peace, he recovered provinces, and he recovered the finances, which were in a shambles after the civil war.
Twickenham's search for a performance director has turned into a shambles after the Rugby Football Union did an about-turn over its requirements for the position. Civil war erupts as RFU clears path for Sir Clive Woodward's return
The next day, the housekeeper arrived to find the place in a shambles.
By evening, David and Yohanna's house was in a shambles.
The place was a shambles and a danger. The Sun
Not much to look at, because the front lawn and the drive to the Manor were a shambles.
My body's in shambles encrusted with brambles that sharpen the air I breathe.
The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped. The Best American Poetry 2010
From the shambles of the aldermanic elections and the final collapse of the Kelly-Nash leadership, Daley walked out even stronger.
After the party, the house was a total/complete shambles.
In the defense of droopy faced Christine, her life is in shambles from the start. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The State budgets are in shambles and taxes and fees are going though the roof, the federal debt is at a record of near 13 trillion dollars. CNN Poll: Optimism on economy fading
The Portland Race is caused by the meeting of the tides between the Bill and the Shambles sandbank about 3 miles SE.
Nearly two decades after the fall of Duvalier fils, Haiti's social and economic fabric lies in utter shambles.
The railways are a shambles - Railtrack's stock was declared near worthless in the City this week.
The whole thing has been a complete shambles. The Sun
The fiery, mustachioed leftist ruled through a junta, then was elected in 1984 but was defeated after a term characterized by authoritarian policies and an economy in shambles. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
It makes me angry that I even care, considering that nothing much is going to change in my life after this election, and that our election result was just as big a shambles.
The GOP is in shambles, I LOVE IT! annie against biased news Armey warns against third party politics
‘The delivery model for service on this airline could easily be workshopped into a far more efficient, customer-oriented system than the shambles in front of us today,’ the man on my right burbled.
How long till this turns into an omnishambles - tomorow?
He will illude to such things again, knowing the economy is in a shambles. Forbes.com: News
The revolutionist is no starved and diseased slave in the shambles at the bottom of the social pit, but is, in the main, a hearty, well - fed workingman, who sees the shambles waiting for him and his children and recoils from the descent. Revolution
Most measures in the 2012 budget generated a row, earning it the nickname 'omnishambles'. Times, Sunday Times
Labour have, in the lingo of the The Thick of It, a major omnishambles on their hands. The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum
The ship's interior was an utter shambles.
He was not very successful in his attempts, for the finances of the Empire were in a shambles and would take time to recover.
What few telecom stocks Peter had owned had gone south long ago, leaving his retirement scheme in a shambles. DEAD LINES
Far from being the transport revolution expected, the service was denounced as a shambles, a farce and the last resort.
Now the U.S. telecommunications industry lies in a shambles, and it has the potential to damage the entire economy.
The word 'omnishambles' is now back on everyone's lips. Times, Sunday Times
The business focus was too narrow, customers were not sufficiently valued, and the work culture was in a shambles.
My house is in an absolute shambles.
There would be whole rows of butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers, which were known as shambles.
Adjacent land was added to the market in the 1360s to bring butchers' stalls together into one spot as a shambles.
The ship's interior was an utter shambles. Titanic - Destination disaster
Critics have labelled the government's handling of the project an 'omnishambles'. Times, Sunday Times
Just as Gordon Brown’s unpopularity cannot be ascribed solely to the economy, so the public’s contempt for the Westminster omnishambles extends beyond expenses. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
It's hard to tell with this omnishambles government if the dog is wagging the tail or the tail wagging the dog.
The scheduling of this week's ties is a complete shambles. The Sun
The low point was 2012 and the 'omnishambles' budget, and there were others. Times, Sunday Times
The California energy disaster has left the once-vigorous electricity deregulation process in shambles.
He found his colony in a shambles, most of its inhabitants gone.
It was a complete shambles before, to be honest. Times, Sunday Times
For a touch of luxury, The Cashmere Store in Shambles has pashmina stoles for £59 rather than £99.
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the traditional system of publication was everywhere in shambles.
I have been trying to make my mind up if this shambles over the two data discs which have gone walkabout is a sea-change moment or not. Archive 2007-11-18
Our game is an utter shambles. The Sun
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: With his life, and mind, in shambles after an industrial accident, Edgar Freemantle retreats to an island in Florida, where both the island, and Edgar, are deeper and darker than he had imagined. REVIEW: Duma Key by Stephen King
He's made an absolute shambles of his career.
I think the border is in a shambles of smuggling, pollution, contagious diseases.
Out of the ashes of the economic shambles, a phoenix of recovery can arise.
They looked an utter shambles. The Sun
Obama, as did Reagan, inherited an economy in shambles, and it will take a few years to get the rate down. Obama calls job numbers 'very encouraging'
Describing the Government's defence policy as an omnishambles would be a compliment.
The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
But the biggest present was a letter on the fax from Jack McConnell conceding her demand for an independent inquiry into the shambles of the Holyrood building.
Despite the wonder of the things in it, the room was in shambles; everything was strewn about across desks and tables, bookshelves, and even the floor.
Out of the ashes of the economic shambles, a phoenix of recovery can arise.

How To Use Shambles In A Sentence

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