Example sentences for: shambles

How can you use “shambles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In common with The Truman Show , the film eventually evolves into a melodramatic revolt against a repressive corporate patriarch, here an executive (Rob Reiner) who doesn't want to turn off the cameras and leave Ed alone when Ed's life is in a shambles but his ratings are high.

  • Initially touted as a model of reform, Moldova is now in a shambles.

  • . and yet his shambles were every day as well, if not better, supplied than any other butcher in the neighbourhood.”

  • The NYT's top non-local story claims that a recent U.S. effort to help Mexico's armed forces defeat drug smugglers is in a shambles, souring relations between the two countries.

  • Hyde's own reputation has been ruined by the news of his adultery, his committee is in shambles, there is no way out of the Flytrap mess, but what can he do?


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