verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
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I wake them up and we shamble along towards the Customs.
over
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Cornelius shambled over and sat down noisily.
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He climbed from the bed and shambled over to the dressing-table mirror.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (in) a shambles
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But the room, the target of a 1968 arson, was in a shambles .
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By October 1952, when we left Pusan, the corrupt Rhee government was in shambles .
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Instead, his side were a shambles again, a disgrace.
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It is all out of order because the preliminaries are a shambles .
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It was a shambles last year.
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Much around Lilly is in shambles .
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The apartment was in shambles and the kids in a frenzy.
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The scrums, in particular, were a shambles , with Haslemere being driven off their own ball.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An old tramp shambled along, looking for money or cigarette ends on the floor.
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Looking tired and fat, Parker shambled onto the stage and started playing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he stooped and appeared to shamble as he walked, chunky and untidy in his tweed suit.
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But the animal was bad-tempered, and one night Eugene opened the cage and let him shamble away.
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Cornelius shambled over and sat down noisily.
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The man shambled off into the house, and the rest of us picked our way across the front garden.
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When they shambled in, Saconi looked them up and down and snorted.
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Yorick shambled backwards out of the room.