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Meanings of shambles in English
Portuguese
matadouros Catalan
escorxador Usage of shambles in English
1
The state of opposition politics and democracy is in a shambles too.
2
Mr Woodhouse said: It just shows what a shambles this thing is.
3
Shortly after the deal closed, the subprime housing market fell into shambles.
4
On this day in 1985, the American videogame market was in shambles.
5
In a little the poor beast rises, and shambles out lurching queerly.
6
Here, then, we have the construction of the Abyss and the shambles.
7
In Durban South Africa were a shambles on the field and off.
8
He say these show the finance and accounting system was in shambles.
9
It was a terrible sight, and the room looked like a shambles.
10
At Jarnac he had been the last to turn from the shambles.
11
The destruction of this shell-fire is making a shambles of human bodies.
12
By nightfall, they would be stopped outside the radioactive shambles of Jacksonville.
13
And the Pod was battered and bent, the control panel a shambles.
14
The rest were driven, like sheep for the shambles, to life-long slavery.
15
Finally, I cannot drive away from my thought the shambles of Europe.
16
This resulted in a shambles that would have confused Herbert Yardley himself.
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