1. The ship's interior was an utter shambles.

2. After the party, the house was a total/complete shambles.

3. The meeting was a shambles from start to finish.

4. The old tramp shambled up to me.

5. Sick patients shambled along the hospital corridors.

6. The press conference was a complete shambles.

7. She's so tired that she shambled into her bedroom.

8. He was a strange, shambling figure.

9. He's made an absolute shambles of his career.

10. The economy is in a shambles.

11. Your room is a shambles. Tidy it up!

12. The government is in a shambles over Europe.

13. The old porter shambled along behind her.

14. He shambled off into the house.

15. We regard the band as a thorough shambles.

16. The economy is in a complete shambles.

17. The tired old man shambles.

18. The fighting reduced the city to a shambles.

19. The hungry marchers shambled slowly along .

20. The way these files are arranged is the biggest shambles I've ever seen.

21. The old man shambled out of the room muttering to himself.

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22. He loped across in his shy, shambling way, flicking his eyes across to her.

23. The flock of sheep had panicked into a shambling run.

24. From his shambling I assumed he was very old.

25. 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.

26. The shambling of his angular figure now directed him to a lean - to.

27. At the moment, I refer to myself as "shambling amateur", "ambulant pacifier" or "milch cow".

28. So, in my shambling, desultory British way, I thought I'd shuffle along there for some posh scran and a glass of wine myself.

29. Their eyes are yellow, their focus unsteady and their stride is either exaggeratedly purposeful or shambling.

30. He was hollow - chested, squint - eyed, and rather shambling, but spry enough withal.

31. She parked at the track and ran until she could run no more, until her sleeveless FSU sweatshirt was dark with sweat down the front and back and she was shambling and sometimes puking with exhaustion.

32. One day he saw Lincoln -- a tall, shambling man, long, bony, gawky, but tremendously impressive.

33. People turned to look after him , so uncouth was his shambling figure.

34. Within weeks, the fields of Westfall stood empty save for their silent, shambling caretakers.

35. Characteristic of the Otterhound gait is a very loose, shambling walk, which springs immediately into a loose and very long striding, sound, active trot with natural extension of the head.