shamblesin a sentence
shambles as in: the place is a shambles
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Our plan is in shambles.
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The breakup left her in a shambles.
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With most of her possessions gone and her beloved yard a shambles, she still took a lively and cordial interest in Jem's and my affairs. (source)shambles = something in great disorder
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Within two years after the nationalization of its oil, the Iranian economy lay in shambles.† (source)
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She obliged, and with her relationship in shambles, she agreed to marry him a week later.† (source)
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What a shambles.† (source)
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He thought the kitchen would be a shambles, but the table stood level, the chairs snugged evenly beneath.† (source)
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"The entire country is in a shambles," ranted the pirate radio announcer we were tuned into, JikeMike, in the background.† (source)
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Even so, Aringarosa's moment of glory was in shambles.† (source)
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Pale and bruised, lean to the point of infirmity, he shambles toward the bed.† (source)
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It was a shambles at the time; eleven families were crowded into it.† (source)
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She found the buffet, and found it in shambles, a feast raided by animals or Vikings, and made her way to the nearest bar, which was out of Riesling and was now offering only some kind of vodka-and-energy drink concoction.† (source)
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The retreat is a bloody shambles.† (source)
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Can a man not come back for an axe helve without finding his house a shambles?† (source)
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The garage—our indestructible bunker—was a shambles.† (source)
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The house behind the lawn had also run to riot; it was a gray, paint-peeling, roof-sagging shambles.† (source)
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