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Sentence Examples The butchers' shambles, where animals were slaughtered and sold on Sundays, abutted the courthouse. Farming, ironically, is the mainstay of the economy, but the agricultural sector is in shambles. He was not very successful in his attempts, for the finances of the Empire were in a shambles and would take time to recover. The California energy disaster has left the once-vigorous electricity deregulation process in shambles. So in a daze of confusion she entered her house to find her room in shambles and a shadow of a person sitting on her bed. Once I have written this, it's enter soundtrack, cue vacuum, then it's curtains for this shambles. But he had been sadly mistaken and his life was in a shambles now because of it. I think the border is in a shambles of smuggling, pollution, contagious diseases. He recovered peace, he recovered provinces, and he recovered the finances, which were in a shambles after the civil war. That, of course, is what they said in baseball and now the sport is a discredited shambles. The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth. Our binmen have worked efficiently and cleanly over the years but the last few weeks have been a shambles as the new system gets under way. Peter is not reduced to nervous shambles, he barks back at his guard and engineers a reasonable escape plan. Three-quarters of the ground is a shambles and consists of seats bolted to original terracing with a new roof. Nothing was happening, the whole thing was up in the air and was a complete shambles. To add to his troubles, accounts payable was in shambles, and his first chief financial officer quit shortly after the filing. The NHS and education systems are a disgraceful shambles and the illegal asylum situation is not only a joke, it is dangerous. Adjacent land was added to the market in the 1360s to bring butchers' stalls together into one spot as a shambles. Far from being the transport revolution expected, the service was denounced as a shambles, a farce and the last resort. Now the U.S. telecommunications industry lies in a shambles, and it has the potential to damage the entire economy. Show More Sentences This woman, this humourless bloodless shambles of a person, was entirely sure that the sign was not open to interpretation by her or anyone else. The second is that the first scene is such a shambles it only makes any sense when you reach the end. Nearly two decades after the fall of Duvalier fils, Haiti's social and economic fabric lies in utter shambles. They also warn that the Government's track record on hi-tech projects suggests it could prove a shambles. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the traditional system of publication was everywhere in shambles. There would be whole rows of butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers, which were known as shambles. It's been a dreadful year for the broadband industry, with DSL phone service, particularly, in a shambles. The system EDS put in place to support the Tax Credit system was widely regarded as a complete and utter shambles. The room was in shambles and their master laid crumpled and bleeding on the floor. High arms, jersey-tugging and arm-wrestling have turned football into a shambles. The business focus was too narrow, customers were not sufficiently valued, and the work culture was in a shambles. Sensible reform is feasible and no more costly than the existing shambles. But the biggest present was a letter on the fax from Jack McConnell conceding her demand for an independent inquiry into the shambles of the Holyrood building. It makes me angry that I even care, considering that nothing much is going to change in my life after this election, and that our election result was just as big a shambles. This naturally produced an utter shambles, which prompted a majority of the committee members, quite rightly, to reject this half-baked document. The prevailing view is that the Tories are a shambles, that their leader is a ditherer, and that some backbench MPs have become corrupt. Why is Italy not called to task when it makes a shambles of its good intentions? As mentioned above, these countries have, in general, economies in shambles or at least severely distorted. In Africa, the education system is a shambles, many universities are overcrowded, and teachers are in short supply. Years of civil strife have left bridges and other road infrastructure in a shambles and allowed the paving to deteriorate. Show More Sentences The education sector in Sierra Leone is a shambles, particularly in areas outside the capital, Freetown. The Conservative party was in a shambles, corrupt after so many years in power and rife with personal, religious and ethnic divisions. The parliament's material and infrastructural facilities are in a shambles. When they speak, they seem to know much, but if we see their life, it is in shambles. Rumba night at UNESCO certainly disproved the cliché that Congolese music events unroll in a state of disorganised shambles. Your early shows were pretty chaotic – how much of a shambles were you back then? Amid the shambles in the ring, a Japanese official, as usual, read out a lengthy statement. In the war-affected areas, most of the infrastructure was destroyed, and the structure of the local economy was in shambles. Everything was in shambles, set alight with fire and misted by smoke. In shambles, pavements once laid with tiles were chaotically dug up. Brilliant as he is in the courtroom, his self-destructive personality leaves his personal life in shambles. And as a guarantee of a Third World economy in shambles, Scotland is oil-rich. But even the most ardent supporters of negotiations with the Taliban recognize that the so-called peace process is in shambles. He found his colony in a shambles, most of its inhabitants gone. The next day, the housekeeper arrived to find the place in a shambles. The countryside is a shambles, full of cut-throats and wild animals. He was hauled before a court next morning which he claims was a shambles. Whatever the wisdom of Gaddis, I was thrilled to be so close to the shambles of Pynchon. Because of the shambles of the funding of local authorities and the fact that it is based on property, rather than ability to pay, the hotel sector is treated inequitably. Tallish, bespectacled, rather big-eared and increasingly thin on top, he tended to be described by his friends as a beaming and highly articulate shambles of a chap, a man to whom convention meant very little. Show More Sentences As I realized during my first visit with the minister of health, the war had left the Liberian health sector in shambles. Her life in shambles, Mrs. Lépine turned towards God to heal her wounds. The DWP have created a botched, overambitious, unworkable and utter shambles of a system. How appropriate, since the crackhead has made a shambles of his life through babies. Absolute shambles at Ryanair bag drop-off. Given an absolute shambles of a television performance she put in yesterday, Bishop will no doubt be asked questions about Australia's policy on the Middle East when she fronts the NPC at lunchtime. The Roses limped on for six months, but then, in summer 1996, came a final, disastrous performance at Reading Festival: Brown's singing was flat, the show was a shambles. With his career at a standstill and his relationship in shambles, he leaves town with his best friend to do the Polar Bear Plunge in the dead of winter in Northern Wisconsin. No parliamentarian or civil servant can be satisfied he has good democratic control if the army is a shambles and has a bad image, and in most Central and Eastern European countries this is the case. Now, with the economy in shambles and unemployment rising, too many people are facing not just loss of income, but also social insecurity with no safety nets to support them through troubled times. Two weeks earlier they were a shambles against Yorkshire at Scarborough, batting fecklessly, bowling lifelessly and fielding appallingly. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake. The foregoing is a remarkable achievement given that the perception of the state of drug management in Church based health systems in Kenya before the establishment of MEDS in 1986 was of a system in shambles. The Group of Experts has observed that the Ministry of Energy's granting of petroleum concessions is non-transparent, the administrative services are in inappropriate locations and the filing system is in shambles. With little contacts with the main-stream society and with their families in shambles, they easily fall prey to delinquency, idleness and hopelessness. Our parks are not being maintained and they are in absolute shambles. Mexico's title bid looked in shambles after their humiliating 1-6 loss against Nigeria in the opener, but on Tuesday, they had clearly made emends. This week the misgoverning coalition will descend into utter shambles. But the brightly-coloured jeepneys, hand-painted trucks which can be flagged down, have navigated the shambles to become the most popular form of public transport. Fabius said that although President Mursi was elected democratically he gave the impression that he intends to Islamize the country while the economy was in shambles. Show More Sentences England France 12 19 by Adam Hathaway MARTIN JOHNSON'S boss flew into New Zealand on Friday but cosy chinwags will not be on the agenda after this shambles. Examples from Classical Literature Their home had become a regular shambles where they wrangled the whole day long. And the shambles he had seen there couldn't have been done by human beings. He staggered back to his room like a bullock to its pen after it has had its death-blow in the shambles. Germany may truthfully say of the epping shambles that no quarter was given that day. None could fail to admit that who visited the French ship, for what had been a well-found, trim vessel was now a shambles. The place was become a shambles, and the very kennels ran with blood. The authors include Tim Lamb, the ECB chief executive who was at the heart of the shilly-shallying shambles about Zimbabwe. They reminded him of the beeves in the shambles of the elder Varro. He never knew, each time he entered the festering shambles, whether or not he would be able to complete the round. As swiftly, all occurring almost simultaneously, did the rest of the boat's crew pass and the deck became a shambles. His eyes were blinded so that he could not set, and the blood running from ears and nose and mouth turned the cabin into a shambles. Smellest thou not already the shambles and cookshops of the spirit? When about to be sent to the same market, an older sister went to the shambles, to plead with the wretch who owned them, for the love of God, to spare his victims. His health, at least from Harte's view, was in shambles and he complained at once of neuralgia, rheumatism, dyspepsia, bronchitis, biliousness, bad teeth and hay fever. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of shambles? Words that rhyme with shambles What is the plural of shambles? What is the adverb for shambles? What is the adjective for shambles? What is the noun for shambles? Translations for shambles Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words shambled shamble Shambhala shamba Shamash shamash shambling shambly shambolic shambolically shame shamed 8-letter Words Starting With s sh sha sham shamb shambl shamble