Sample Sentences for
shamble
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shamble as in:  she shambled along

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    With a spring Gollum got up and started shambling off at a great pace.  (source)
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    As twilight fell the old bull stood with lowered head, watching his mates—the cows he had known, the calves he had fathered, the bulls he had mastered—as they shambled on at a rapid pace through the fading light.  (source)
    shambled = walked in an awkward, shuffling manner
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    Two hours later, as Petersen Sahib was eating early breakfast, his elephants, who had been double chained that night, began to trumpet, and Pudmini, mired to the shoulders, with Kala Nag, very footsore, shambled into the camp.  (source)
    shambled = walked in an awkward, shuffling way
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    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.  (source)
    shambling = walking in an awkward, shuffling way
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    I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.†  (source)
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    And he'd shamble after me like an old-time movie monster until I ran away laughing.†  (source)
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    Even the pictures of the sports heroes and movie stars were the same, from room to room; and from boy to boy, there was often a similar scrap of something missed from the life at home: a picture of a car, with the boy proudly at the wheel (Gravesend boarders were not allowed to drive, or even ride in, cars); a picture of a perfectly plain backyard, or even a snapshot of such a deeply private moment—an unrecognizable figure shambling away from the camera, back turned to our view—that the substance of the picture was locked in a personal memory.†  (source)
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    As soon as we roused them, they shambled off apologetically.†  (source)
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    They did not shamble.†  (source)
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    His shambling dignity.†  (source)
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    Mord shambled backward, grinning through his rotten teeth.†  (source)
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    Not only did he shamble, jive, shuck, and hipdoodle at his own sweet pace, he did something he had never even done in the East End — he came to a complete and utter halt halfway across and let nothing but the evil in his eyes take care of the rest.†  (source)
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    The animal broke into a shambling trot, his breath panting and labored, and the wagon swayed forward with a jolt that threw them about like popcorn in a popper.†  (source)
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