Example Sentences
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Exhausted junior doctors shambled in after shifts with their sleeves pushed up.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020
In Courtroom C-10, a deputy U.S. marshal pointed to a spot on the floor in front of the judge’s bench, and Offutt shambled into place, chains rattling.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2019
The group sometimes shambled into a free-flowing rubato right in the middle of a fast tune, but it maintained conviction, and avoided melodrama.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2018
Meanwhile, as Kyoto shambled on, the horizon receded.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015
He got to his feet and half ran, half shambled out of the barn.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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