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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)
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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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    I saw Leopolda kneeling within the shambles of her love.†  (source)
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    All around him, his beautiful new ship was in shambles.†  (source)
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    The kitchen was a shambles.†  (source)
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    You will make a shambles of it.†  (source)
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    By noon, their case was in shambles.†  (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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    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)
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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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    If past memories did stir up in him, Dr. Sasaki had come to be able to live with his one bitter regret: that in the shambles of the Red Cross Hospital in those first days after the bombing it had not been possible, beyond a certain point, to keep track of the identities of hose whose corpses were dragged out to the mass cremations, with the result that nameless souls might still, all these years later, be hovering there, unattended and dissatisfied.†  (source)
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    If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued his bloody blunder more than I now rue mine.†  (source)
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