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How to use shambling in a sentence

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There was a shambling drunk I used to pass sometimes on my way to school, lying in a doorway, clutching a bottle.
The body language of the escaper, who approached my position, was one of utter dejection, head down, shambling forward with obvious reluctance.
Indeed, he became so much interested and amused by their shambling motions and clever evolutions, that he could no longer contain his curiosity.
They move with a slow shambling walk, the low-slung head swinging from side to side.
He took on the No.1 contender in a mandatory defence and reduced him to a shambling wreck inside seven minutes, 45 seconds of controlled boxing.
The shambling gait, unshaven appearance, panda eyes and mumbling incoherence are a mirror image of Cobain.
Heavy of jowl, shambling of gait, ponderous of voice, his manner was still affable.
Constantly flattering, thanking, and offering sweets to shambling, younger helpers who feel in awe of the man.
His pained expression implies childlike insecurity, his shambling unsophistication contrasting with the intensity of the competition.
The boy went off with a curious, shambling gait which told my surgical eyes that he was suffering from a weak spine.
Struggling to suppress his trademark intelligence, he plays a doughy, shambling, lost soul.
From the edge of the forest, a horde of dark shapes emerged into the clearing and started shambling towards the house.
By his side was the familiar, loose-jointed figure of Mark Twain, getting over ground with his usual shambling gait.
That night, Jack dreamt of a scaled slumping dad breaking out of the shed and shambling out of the dark grove toward the house.
I walked to the library slowly, as if shambling, for my heart is bound with iron bands like the faithful servant in that old tale.
The fact that they moved by relentlessly shambling along is part of what gave them a creepy effect.
We start with a blond, long-haired young man shambling through the woods, mumbling to himself.
The following night, at the same time, Hyatt again heard the shambling footsteps in the hallway.
It has its moments of charm, but ultimately the picture is a bit of an undisciplined, shambling mess.
Rebraca, just as shambling off the court, shakes his bleached-blond locks in quiet agreement.
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She was rewarded by a slap that half stunned her, and Olmec quickened his pace to a shambling run.
He ran once, but the long gown clogged him so that he slowed down into a shambling walk, and finally plumped into the heather once more.
Her entourage followed her, shambling a little, and blank-eyed.
He returned to the front of the house, shambling like a somnambulist.
There was nothing weak or shambling in those six feet three inches.
He was a tall man, with a shambling gait and an angular face.
Ransom, shambling behind them, crept in and knelt at the foot of the bed.
She remembered Joe, a silent, shambling youth, all hands, feet, and shyness, who had spent most of his spare time twisting his fingers and staring adoringly at her from afar.
I could not help a creeping horror, as I perceived first one and then another trot out from the trees or reeds and come shambling along over the hot dust.
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