amble

verb am·ble \ ˈam-bəl \

|Updated on: 16 Aug 2018

Examples: amble in a Sentence

Definition of amble

ambled; ambling play \-b(ə-)liŋ\

intransitive verb

: to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter

spent the day ambling through the park

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ambler

play \-b(ə-)lər\ noun

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Examples of amble in a Sentence

We ambled along as we talked.
They ambled down the road.

Recent Examples of amble from the Web

The 40 treks combine history with nature, ambling alongside ruins of 19th-century mills deep into the woods or visiting the National Canal Museum on a hike in Easton.

— michael milne, Philly.com, "Field-Tested Travel Tip: Go Take a Hike," 29 June 2018
There are scooters, walkers, canes, and ambling feet.

— beth kephart, Philly.com, "Frances Metzman's 'Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Bay': The rules of dancing, life, and rocking thongs in a retirement village," 6 July 2018
That evening, several hours after the courthouse was closed, Katie Sasser, her boyfriend Johnny Hall, and some friends were at a local pizzeria enjoying trivia night when Sasser ambled in to pick up a pizza.

— bill torpy, ajc, "Torpy at Large: When a murderous cop has law-and-order enablers," 5 July 2018
The shoe takes a centrist’s approach to foam and protection, with a slow, cruisey vibe and a wide, boxy fit best suited for ambling runs on less technical trails.

— justin nyberg, Outside Online, "The Best Trail Running Shoes of 2018," 3 July 2018
The man, wearing a top hat and fancy leather jacket, nonchalantly checks something on a wall before ambling back out of view at Living the Dream Ice Cream around 4:30 a.m., the video shows.

— don sweeney, sacbee, "A burglar in a top hat stole cash and cookies from ice cream shop, California cops say," 2 July 2018
That weevil lived alongside the dinosaurs; its death may even have occurred in the presence of brachiosaurus, which once ambled around the same forestland.

— lorraine boissoneault, Smithsonian, "Jurassic Park’s Unlikely Symbiosis With Real-World Science," 15 June 2018
Inside the open-air temple, dozens of the gazelles, known as chinkaras, and a long-horned blackbuck antelope ambled around a sandy enclosure, all having been brought there for care after being wounded or orphaned.

— shashank bengali, latimes.com, "This nature-loving sect in India dragged one of the world's biggest movie stars to court — and won," 17 May 2018
Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, who had been touring with the mayor, ambled up to the arrest to see what was happening.

— ian duncan, baltimoresun.com, "Mayor Catherine Pugh walks West Baltimore streets to survey efforts to fight crime, blight and fear," 24 Apr. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of amble

Middle English, from Anglo-French ambler, from Latin ambulare to walk, from ambi- + -ulare (verb base akin to Middle Welsh el he may go, Greek ēlythe he went) — more at elastic

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First Known Use: 14th century

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