shamble
noun
shambles,
Example Sentences
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But Barbara Slaine was sitting on the ground at a California farm last year when a turkey named Sun shambled over and climbed into her lap.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022
A dozen dolphins leaped and spun alongside the boat as Capt. Sean Rubino — known to everyone as Bobby Hill for the cartoon character he resembles — shambled down to chum the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
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
I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
