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Examples of amble in a Sentence
Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
From the intersection of Cascade Drive, Cascade Way, and Molino Avenue in the city of Mill Valley, amble up a series of staircases that ascend through a redwood grove, then stroll along a ridge overlooking stunning coastal valleys.
—Jenna Scatena, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
The two ambled around then turned around, bumbling back toward the tunnel, but not before showing off the strength of their bond.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
Panda lovers ambled outside the panda area and watched the famous trio, taking photos and laughing at the bears’ antics — unaware that this would be the pandas’ last full day in D.C.
—Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
All the others ambled onward between 36% (Pittsburgh) and 53% (Kansas City).
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
But the rest of the album ambles through a signature haze of dreary, mid-tempo beats and meditative piano-lounge instrumentation perfected by Drake’s go-to producer and chief partner, Noah (Forty) Shebib.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
Just sort of ambling past you, a random passerby in whatever oddball, WTF mind movie is unspooling during your usual R.E.M. cycles.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2023
When the clip begins, there are no jailers present, but several men are sitting at booths researching or working, and a few more are ambling around the room.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
And every amble around the grounds was sidetracked by an encounter: with a lizard or a lawn swing or, once, a small plantation of bananas.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
Even a short amble around a local lake or natural area is invigorating on a sunny fall day.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
An amble through a museum.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
There was the athletic-looking youth whose slow amble blocked the walking path so no one else could pass—suboptimal.
—Lucy Liu, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
Back in 2012, researchers from Sweden tied the amble to a very specific region of the genome, a single nucleotide to be exact.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2016
Louis Elisa is on his morning walk, an amble around Franklin Park shortly after a cold autumn dawn.
—Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
The cassowary tops out at 31 mph and easily keeps pace with your drunken amble.
—Peter Stark, Outside Online, 25 June 2013
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Word History
Verb
Middle English amblen "(of a horse) to go at an amble, go at an easy gait," borrowed from Anglo-French ambler, aumbler (in present participle amblant) (continental Old French anbler), going back to Latin ambulāre "to go on foot, walk, walk for pleasure or health, travel," from amb- "around, about" + -ulāre, probably going back to a verb base *al-, going back to Indo-European *h2elh2- "wander," whence also Umbrian amboltu "(s/he) must go around," Greek aláomai, alâsthai "to wander, roam," Latvian aluôt "to go astray" — more at ambient entry 1
Noun
Middle English ambel, in part borrowed from Middle French amble (going back to Old French, noun derivative of ambler "to amble entry 1"), in part noun derivative of amblen "to amble entry 1
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Amble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amble. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
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