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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
- 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
shambling = to walk in an awkward, shuffling way
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