How To Use Shambling In A Sentence
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She failed to live up to the moment, shambling through a faltering performance of her new single.
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Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Sim was a round-shouldered curiously oafish-looking man, not large but shambling in gait, with a chubby face which was like that of an overgrown baby, and which was capable of good humor.
Such, Such Were the Joys
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Today, shambling down to the pub, the little diddy bus round the corner arrived bloody early- a good five minutes or so, just as I'd turned out of my front door.
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I walked to the library slowly, as if shambling, for my heart is bound with iron bands like the faithful servant in that old tale.
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His pained expression implies childlike insecurity, his shambling unsophistication contrasting with the intensity of the competition.
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from his shambling I assumed he was very old
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Here we are shambling and wounded and lonely at the end of the world.
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It has its moments of charm, but ultimately the picture is a bit of an undisciplined, shambling mess.
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Inside, we find shambling, carefully sculpted poetics that take full advantage of their capacity to surprise and startle: No two pages look the same; the text kinetically rambles over the available surface area.
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A summer hotel stretched its verandas along a lovely level; everywhere in clovery hollows and on breezy knolls were gray old farmhouses and summer cottages-like weather-beaten birds 'nests, and like freshly painted marten-boxes; but all of a cold New England neatness which made me homesick for my malodorous Spanish fishing-village, shambling down in stony lanes to the warm tides of my native seas.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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The shambling of his angular figure now directed him to a lean - to.
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I walked to the library slowly, as if shambling, for my heart is bound with iron bands like the faithful servant in that old tale.
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He is a somewhat shambling but attractive denim-clad man in his late 50s, with a thatch of pewter-coloured hair, an engaging smile and a permanently amused gaze.
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A shambling family of starlings on Coll in May, debauched and chaotic and moaning about winter, above a corncrake still stoking up the year with its crex crex song “endorsing summer” as Louis MacNeice says, with the “sourdine in their throat” as Andrew Marvell says;
A Year on the Wing
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All these the Taphians, famous shipmen, slew in fight for oxen with shambling hoofs, ....
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The fact that they moved by relentlessly shambling along is part of what gave them a creepy effect.
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The Dead, shambling close together in an unplanned and unorganized mob.
ABHORSEN
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He was extremely tall, but he couldn't have weighed more than a hundred pounds beneath all the dirt, a shambling scarecrow of drooping skin and rags.
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He walked with a stoop and a rolling gait, the once upright take-on-the-world stance of the magnificent athlete now reduced to a shambling stagger.
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We start with a blond, long-haired young man shambling through the woods, mumbling to himself.
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By the open window stood a man, open-faced and shambling.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Now, having gained shelter, they quickly lost the glow of endeavour, and mixed in pleasing stupor the humming of the storm in the tower above, its intermittent onslaughts on the leadwork of the southern windows, and the voice of Parson Babbage lifted now and again from the chancel as if to correct the shambling pace of the choir in the west gallery.
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
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In the large ensemble cast, he gives the standout performance as the endearingly needy, shambling Tommy, the most human figure in what often seems like a gallery of grotesques and cartoon caricatures.
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Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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He walked with a stoop and a rolling gait, the once upright take-on-the-world stance of the magnificent athlete now reduced to a shambling stagger.
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The Dead, shambling close together in an unplanned and unorganized mob.
ABHORSEN
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Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts, he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.
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Attacked by a monstrous little creature called a "delver", Cara is rescued by a shambling, manlike beast called "the Dimblethum.
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I don't want to get into an argument over what technically counts as a zombie, but it's possible that Depp meant the return of the villains from the first film, over shambling hordes of peglegged foes.
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