Example Sentences
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She seemed to be everything that I, a shambling, spit up-stained wreck, was not.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024
The post, from someone claiming to work at Boeing, described the production of Boeing's 737 planes as "a rambling, shambling, disaster waiting to happen".
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024
Eager to play live concerts since the waning days of the Beatles, McCartney conceived Wings as a back-to-basics rock ‘n’ roll band, debuting the group on 1971’s modest, shambling “Wild Life.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023
In the taxonomy of horror, its undead are “fast zombies,” as opposed to the shambling hordes in old-time creature features.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023
He could no longer stand the rooms where Antonapoulos had lived, and he rented a place in a shambling boardinghouse not far from the center of the town.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
