How to Use shambling in a Sentence
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The shambling Cliff and the spiky Didi make for an odd couple.
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Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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Once the beyond-the-grave comeuppance arrives, this short is just standard shambling ghouls and raining blood.
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A.a. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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One rarely gains a sense of what people look like (beyond the son’s bulky physique and shambling movements, in which the mother ‘caught a flash of her brother’).
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Dan Sheehan,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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With almost no plan, Sonny makes a shambling attempt at an armed robbery, only to end up trapped in the bank with the manager and five female tellers as his hostages.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2026
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These movies—including the seven-hour-long Sátántangó, a centerpiece of which is a shambling dance in a barroom—often swap the meandering sentence for a single camera shot that lasts 10 minutes or more.
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Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, no one in metal was funnier, more in touch with his own bathos, more post–Spinal Tap, in a sense, than Ozzy, especially in his shambling-paterfamilias incarnation on MTV’s reality show The Osbournes.
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James Parker,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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