(a.) Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace; as, a shambling trot; shambling legs.
(n.) An awkward, irregular gait.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staff had to make paper records of 999 calls in what one ambulance crew member described as “a shambles”.
(2) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(3) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(4) It would be a travesty if their first experience of democracy was this shambles.
(5) Dan Barron blames this result on the maroon jerseys, while Greg Phillips nominates the theme to Ronnie Corbett vehicle Sorry as the perfect Hazlehurst soundtrack for this shambles.
(6) Ball's camp, meanwhile, denied that he was seeking a right of veto over the non-executive chairman, describing the process as "a shambles" in which the former BSkyB executive was presented with a fait accompli rather than being properly consulted about who he should work with.
(7) In his piece, Gove criticises historians and TV programmes that denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a "misbegotten shambles".
(8) The government’s overhaul of primary-school assessments has turned into a shambles, according to the teachers who will have to carry them out from next month, with complaints that seven- and 11-year-old pupils find the new standards too hard and too confusing.
(9) As Longford (Channel 4), he seemed to be playing not just the shambling man but his shining soul.
(10) Philip Hammond needs to get a grip and sort this shambles out."
(11) He can build on material we have collected but reaching a fair outline in three months seems impossible – but I don’t think that is his objective anyway.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Pyne says Labor has left the Coalition with a shambles and a $1.2bn shortfall.
(12) One publisher, unwilling to speak on the record, agreed, saying that "the consensus does seem to be that the Booker this year is a bit of a shambles", with the panel "lacking in authority" and "a bit confused about what the prize is for".
(13) Lloyd George, Gladstone, Churchill - he reluctantly resigned at 80 in 1955 after a four-year rearguard action – Thatcher of course, Macmillan too, were shambles.
(14) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Roxanne McMurray, spokesperson for the advocacy group SOS Women’s Services, told Background Briefing that following last year’s reforms, services across the state were in a shambles.
(15) It was on the 37th lap of the 61-lap race that a man was seen shambling along the side of the track on the straight near turn 13.
(16) Related story Dome management was 'shambles' Related special report The Millennium Dome Useful links The full National Audit Office report Executive summary of the report
(17) Dromey called the law "a shambles", benefiting neither candidates nor electors.
(18) My local authority is a shambles, so the sooner control is taken away from local government and administered nationally, the better, but I do worry about how they are going to work it all out.
(19) "Partly because I want to see Will Hughes in the top flight by getting there rather than waving from a Manchester subs bench, partly because they're far less of an expensive shambles than QPR, partly because Redknapps annoy me but mainly so it's really easy for me to watch Everton once a year."
(20) Ministers seem to be working hard to make their new police and crime commissioner elections a shambles – providing too little information, costly elections in cold dark November, the helpline not working , ballot papers reprinted .
Walk
Definition:
(v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
(v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
(v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
(v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
(v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
(v. i.) To move off; to depart.
(v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
(v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
(v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
(n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
(n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
(n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
(n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
(n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
(n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
(n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(3) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(6) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(7) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(8) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
(9) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(10) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(11) He was unable to walk alone at 2 years of age and developed seizures and intermittent ataxia at 5 years of age.
(12) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
(13) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
(14) Walking for pleasure was generally the most common physical activity for both sexes throughout the year.
(15) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
(16) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(17) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.
(18) By the isolation of overlapping cosmid clones and 'chromosome walking' studies from the H-2Kk gene, we have obtained cosmid clones encoding the H-2Klk gene from two separate cosmid libraries.
(19) All horses underwent a gradually increasing exercise programme consisting of walking and trotting beginning one week after the first injection and continuing for 24 weeks.
(20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.