Sentence examples for shambles from from inspiring English sources

This unjustified policy has been a shambles from the outset.

"This has been a sorry shambles from a sorry department".

"This investigation was a shambles from the beginning," he said.

This is a defensive shambles from the Koreans.

They were dreadful here, their defence an embarrassing shambles from the start.

"The trip is a shambles from the beginning," recalls Keane in his book.

I watched people shambling from store to store on Main Street, peering into the windows like zombies.

Shambling from side to side, roaring and leaping, the apes look great — these actors are much better than the ones in the 1968 film at aping ape behavior.

No doubt, New Yorkers of a certain age can still remember the used-clothes collector, singing out his mournful cry, "I cash clothes!" as he shambled from neighborhood to neighborhood, laden with used dresses, suits, hats.

And then the news came from Nice, not in the form of a digital alert that modern shock of synchronized revelation but in that of an old, shambling man, shuffling from cluster to cluster to repeat it in a high-pitched, flutelike voice.

And then the news came from Nice, not in the form of a digital alert — that modern shock of synchronized revelation — but in that of an old, shambling man, shuffling from cluster to cluster to repeat it in a high-pitched, flutelike voice.