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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)
    shambling = walked in a shuffling manner
  • The great head drooped more and more under its tree of horns, and the shambling trot grew weak and weaker.  (source)
    shambling = in an awkward shuffling manner
  • 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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  • I couldn't see him there, but I could feel him, a shambling monster with one eye, so sad.†  (source)
    shambling = walking in an awkward, shuffling way
  • One of them shambled up the line, whispering urgent advice.  (source)
    shambled = walked in a shuffling manner
  • And he'd shamble after me like an old-time movie monster until I ran away laughing.†  (source)
    shamble = walk in an awkward, shuffling way
  • Although the shambling figures moved in complete silence, there were screams all around now.†  (source)
    shambling = walking in an awkward, shuffling way
  • I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.†  (source)
    shambled = walked in an awkward, shuffling way
  • 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)
    shamble = walk in an awkward, shuffling way
  • The gait is shambling.†  (source)
    shambling = walking in an awkward, shuffling way
  • As soon as we roused them, they shambled off apologetically.†  (source)
    shambled = walked in an awkward, shuffling way
  • A big station clock rattles off a relentless advance of seconds, and Marie-Laure sits beside her great-uncle and listens to the wasted and wretched shamble off the trains.†  (source)
    shamble = walk in an awkward, shuffling way
  • 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)
    shambling = walking in an awkward, shuffling way
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