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shambles
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shambles as in:  the place is a shambles

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  • She obliged, and with her relationship in shambles, she agreed to marry him a week later.†  (source)
  • Pale and bruised, lean to the point of infirmity, he shambles toward the bed.†  (source)
  • It was a shambles at the time; eleven families were crowded into it.†  (source)
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  • All around him, his beautiful new ship was in shambles.†  (source)
  • I saw Leopolda kneeling within the shambles of her love.†  (source)
  • The kitchen was a shambles.†  (source)
  • You will make a shambles of it.†  (source)
  • By noon, their case was in shambles.†  (source)
  • In her version, he is a man rightfully worried over the well-being of a deeply unhappy and self-destructive daughter who cannot help making shambles of her own life.†  (source)
  • "The entire country is in a shambles," ranted the pirate radio announcer we were tuned into, JikeMike, in the background.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • When Jackie had borrowed the Dodge and started to drive back at 12:30, the town was a panicky shambles.†  (source)
  • The place was a shambles.†  (source)
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