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Definition

to walk in an awkward, shuffling way

She shambled about the house in over-sized slippers.

shambled = to walk in an awkward, shuffling way

shambled along with bowed head
James' chubby face was set and unsmiling as Major continued his imitation, scratching his nose, pouting his lips, and shambling loosely like a puppet at the end of jerking strings.
Robert Lipsyte -- The Contender

shambling = to walk in an awkward, shuffling way

People turned to look after him, so uncouth was his shambling figure.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
He could bear no one but his wife; he shambled up to Margaret afterwards and asked her to do what she could with him.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
That invading energy scared him more than the prospect of being embraced by the fiery arms of this shambling specter.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
The great head drooped more and more under its tree of horns, and the shambling trot grew weak and weaker.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
Although the shambling figures moved in complete silence, there were screams all around now.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
He moved with a shambling gait round the group and spoke to Stephen.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I broke into a shambling trot, my gun hand in my pocket, clutching the automatic.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Eragon hesitated, reluctant to leave, then nodded and shambled away from the bench, his feet dragging in the dirt.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
Edward was gone; they heard him slipping and shambling on the polished oak of the stairs.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
The two of them were running in the direction of a shambling roadhouse.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
Hawat shambled forward as a Fremen lance was lifted and replaced behind him.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
For in the new dark, the restive herd of old men shambled forward, hearts hammering.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
I head for the next car over, but the alligator turns as well, shambling beside the train, its blunt, toothy snout open, grinning.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
The troll shambled forwards, squinting through the chandelier light.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
The poet Ampleforth shambled into the cell.
George Orwell -- 1984
Hope passes the window outside the free-lunch counter in a shambling, panic-stricken run.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
The man shambled down the passage in his slippers.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

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