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Example sentences from the Web for shamblesAnd as a guarantee of a Third World economy in shambles, Scotland is oil-rich. Up to a Point: A Free Scotland Would Be a Hilarious Disaster|P. J. O’Rourke|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST The unity government that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas established with Hamas is now in shambles. There Is No Moral Equivalent to the Murder of Three Israeli Teenagers|Thane Rosenbaum|July 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST But even the most ardent supporters of negotiations with the Taliban recognize that the so-called peace process is in shambles. Karzai Gambles with the Taliban|Bill Roggio|January 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Brilliant as he is in the courtroom, his self-destructive personality leaves his personal life in shambles. Fall-Winter TV Preview: Snap Judgments of 2013–14’s New Shows|Jace Lacob, Kevin Fallon|July 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The fatherland is a shambles, Bolivarian socialism has failed, and Comandante Chávez is dead. Hugo Chávez Dead at 58: Good Riddance!|Michael Moynihan|March 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST Here, then, we have the construction of the Abyss and the shambles. The People of the Abyss|Jack London The freemen of the North are responsible for it equally with the traffickers in flesh who haunt the shambles of the South. Charles Sumner; His Complete Works, Volume III (of 20)|Charles Sumner The spot in the grass which they had just escaped from was a shambles. In the Morning of Time|Charles G. D. Roberts The place was becoming a shambles where the blood of attackers and attacked mingled horribly in the gloom. Darkness and Dawn|George Allan England The anticipation of that first blow dragged her as the butcher drags his sheep to the shambles. Sally Bishop|E. Temple Thurston
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noun (functioning as singular or plural)a place of great disorderthe room was a shambles after the party a place where animals are brought to be slaughtered any place of slaughter or carnage British dialect a row of covered stalls or shops where goods, originally meat, are sold Word Origin for shamblesC14 shamble table used by meat vendors, from Old English sceamel stool, from Late Latin scamellum a small bench, from Latin scamnum stool Words nearby shamblesshamanism, Shamash, shamateur, shamba, shamble, shambles, shambolic, shame, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shamblesdisarray, maelstrom, hash, botch, babel, bedlam, chaos, havoc, muddle, madhouse, confusion, mix-up, disorder, anarchy, disorganization, mess-up |