shambles
IPA: ʃˈæmbʌɫz
noun
- A scene of great disorder or ruin.
- A great mess or clutter.
- A scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation.
- A slaughterhouse.
- (archaic) A butcher's shop.
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Examples of "shambles" in Sentences
- The GOP is in shambles, I LOVE IT! annie against biased news
- In the defense of droopy faced Christine, her life is in shambles from the start.
- An educational system based on survival of the fittest competition now in shambles:
- Obama, as did Reagan, inherited an economy in shambles, and it will take a few years to get the rate down.
- I don't see an argument here that the economy was in shambles until Dole and Gingrich took power in the Congress.
- With the private sector in shambles, the Federal government is the only one with enough juice left to fix anything.
- The State budgets are in shambles and taxes and fees are going though the roof, the federal debt is at a record of near 13 trillion dollars.
- I mean, hell, if I was accused of molesting children, had a face falling apart, a career in shambles, and had become a mockery of my former self, I'd be on drugs too.
- If I take up space here writing all the other theories that were once, supposedly, absolute and the foundation of all knowledge and which are now tottering if not in shambles, I'll say nothing else.
- BRIEF SYNOPSIS: With his life, and mind, in shambles after an industrial accident, Edgar Freemantle retreats to an island in Florida, where both the island, and Edgar, are deeper and darker than he had imagined.
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