Example sentences for: shambling

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

  • You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.

  • The most enthusiastic: It "triumphs by being its smart, shambling self, though it takes a while to get there" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Most critics say the tasty nuggets of fun are too few and far between: It "has moments of brilliance waving their arms to attract attention in a sea of dreck" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). (To check out the comic book the film was based on and to watch the trailer, visit the official site.)

  • It's the bleary, hangdog demeanor; the watery eyes; the shambling gait; the passiveness that borders on the stereotypically feminine.

  • The shambling Gibson beats people's heads in, gets his own head beaten in, beats some more people's heads in, and drives away.

  • In his shambling gait and glassy, uncertain stare he reminds me all too closely of another awesome wreck of a man who led another awesome wreck of a country: Marshall von Hindenburg at the end of his life.


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