‘I think the border is in a shambles of smuggling, pollution, contagious diseases.’
‘I don't want to come home and find my half in a shambles.’
‘In 1853, Louisa Dalton Bird Cunningham was aboard a steamer on the Potomac sailing from Philadelphia to her plantation in South Carolina when she saw Mount Vernon in a shambles.’
‘Currently the education system is in a shambles.’
‘It's been a dreadful year for the broadband industry, with DSL phone service, particularly, in a shambles.’
‘By evening, David and Yohanna's house was in a shambles.’
‘He recovered peace, he recovered provinces, and he recovered the finances, which were in a shambles after the civil war.’
‘Forget the scare stories you heard when the lights went out: America's electrical grid isn't in a shambles.’
‘Now the U.S. telecommunications industry lies in a shambles, and it has the potential to damage the entire economy.’
‘He found his colony in a shambles, most of its inhabitants gone.’
‘The business focus was too narrow, customers were not sufficiently valued, and the work culture was in a shambles.’
‘The next day, the housekeeper arrived to find the place in a shambles.’
‘He was not very successful in his attempts, for the finances of the Empire were in a shambles and would take time to recover.’
‘But he had been sadly mistaken and his life was in a shambles now because of it.’
‘The second is that the first scene is such a shambles it only makes any sense when you reach the end.’
‘So in a daze of confusion she entered her house to find her room in shambles and a shadow of a person sitting on her bed.’
‘Despite the wonder of the things in it, the room was in shambles; everything was strewn about across desks and tables, bookshelves, and even the floor.’
‘The room was in shambles and their master laid crumpled and bleeding on the floor.’
‘The countryside is a shambles, full of cut-throats and wild animals.’
‘The California energy disaster has left the once-vigorous electricity deregulation process in shambles.’