were shambling
- past progressive of shamble.
Example Sentences
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Cattle, unfoddered for months, were shambling bags of bones, the sheep and goats desperately gnawed bales of paper ticker-tape thrown out by the telegraph company.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also, I saw only one pair of trousers actually completed during the time that I spent there, although the factory workers were shambling about clutching all sorts of scraps of cloth.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Several blue cranes were shambling along just off our way, and the incessant cooing of doves, near and far, blended melodiously with the fair and peaceful evening scene.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram
