shambling in English

adjective

1

moving with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait.

a big, shambling, shy man

verb

1

(of a person) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait.

he shambled off down the corridor

synonyms: shuffle, drag one's feet, lumber, totter, dodder, hobble, limp

noun

• shuffle, shamble, shuffling

verb

• shuffle, drag one's feet, lumber, totter, dodder, hobble, limp
• shuffle, scuffle

Use "shambling" in a sentence

1. He was a strange, shambling figure.

2. From his shambling I assumed he was very old.

3. The flock of sheep had panicked into a shambling run.

4. The shambling of his angular figure now directed him to a lean - to.

5. One day he saw Lincoln -- a tall, shambling man, long, bony, gawky, but tremendously impressive.

6. Bosk (cattle) Gorean Definition: a huge, shambling cattle like animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair

7. View in context They were Chinese, with expressionless, Sphinx-like faces, and they walked in peculiar shambling fashion, dragging their feet as if the clumsy Brogans were too heavy for their lean

8. Ardi's pelvis fits like the foot, is something of a hybrid - the hip bones are low and curved and somewhat adapted to bi-pedalism, or walking upright on two legs, without obviously shambling like a chimp.

9. 28 Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts,(www.Sentencedict.com) he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.

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