How to Use amble in a Sentence

amble

1 of 2 verb

• They ambled down the road.
• We ambled along as we talked.
• Clareon’s father, Clarence Williams, said the boy was now able to amble around the house and in the yard.
  — Charles J. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2021
• Cover herself with guts, open the door, and let the walkers amble past them to feast on the freaks.
  — Richard Rys, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2021
• The rest would sort of amble off of it, like people leaving their apartment to walk to the train.
  — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
• Feliz ambled up to the ball, picked it up and threw it in the stands, allowing Valera to score.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 20 June 2019
• The neighbors’ horses sometimes amble up to the fence to watch.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
• The image in my mind just changed—from the rugged rule-breaker on the road to the flaneur, the person with the time to amble around the city at leisure.
  — Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
• Book a tour or amble solo through the Château De Versailles and its grounds.
  — Elly Leavitt, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023
• There was a lot of feet-shuffling in the mostly-standing crowd as the first set ambled along.
  — William Earl, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
• Throughout the night, attendees amble back and forth between the gallery and the bar.
  — Curbed, 30 Sep. 2022
• The man watched the bear amble away through the woods, then was able to walk up the trail to a nearby house to get help, Herreman said.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2019
• Shaquille O’Neal ambled by the suite with about nine minutes left in the first half and created nary a stir.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• From the parking area, walk back down the road to Ridge Trail, turning right to amble uphill.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• There’s the slow code, when a team ambles to a patient’s room and does very light compressions.
  — Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
• The spry speedster that used to zoom out the door may one day amble unsteadily to the closet to be let out.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
• While authorities were talking to the group, a dog ambled over to the camp.
  — The Washington Post, al, 13 May 2019
• With four minutes left on the game clock, an arena staffer ambles over.
  — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• One video shows the bear walk along their grass, onto their porch and amble into the garage area near a car, out of the camera’s view.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Strangers would amble by and leave a cookie by your elbow.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
• The square is filled with floral beds and sycamore trees; the ideal place to amble, and enjoy live music.
  — Katarina Kovac, Vogue, 11 July 2018
• Others amble about, taking in a view of the city that seems to go on forever.
  — Abdi Ibrahim, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• Then amble across the volcanic desert of Emstrur, where the landscape goes from lunar to lush.
  — Britt Smith, Bloomberg.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• Or, if shepherding isn’t your thing, feel free to amble down the mountain alongside the herd.
  — Danielle Bernabe, National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
• Manchin, meanwhile, ambled up to Collins during a break.
  — Laurie Kellman, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2020
• As the bus ambled through Newton the evening Buttigieg’s tour started, there was all the polite awkwardness of a first date.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
• While some go Zoom, others amble at a more leisurely pace.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• In February, hunters in Utah claimed to have captured the hairy hulk on video, ambling across a mountain range.
  — Fox News, 1 Aug. 2019
• Former Assemblyman Rusty Areias even ambled by to sit and chat for a few minutes.
  — James Richardson, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
• Afterward, Smith ambled out to the lobby and looked for Doerries.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024

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amble

2 of 2 noun

• Four of us watched the black bear amble through the valley below us.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2018
• The hotel is about a 15-minute amble along Somerville Avenue to the nucleus of Union Square.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• The cassowary tops out at 31 mph and easily keeps pace with your drunken amble.
  — Peter Stark, Outside Online, 25 June 2013
• For a luxurious amble of a run, the Brooks Levitate is your shoe.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• All the pre-match amble was about Jose Mourinho dropping four star players.
  — SI.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• Even so, there are pleasures to be had from a book that moves at an amble—that sometimes takes a detour for no reason except to admire the view.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• But even those of us not so anesthetized shouldn’t expect to be taking or following an easy, pleasant amble.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• But the pull of difference was matched with a sense, at least as strong, that the border didn’t so much divide two nations as amble over a contiguous region.
  — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• But a cockroach’s amble relies on more central control.
  — Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
• Walk your dinner off with a lazy amble along the canal before checking into the ultra-contemporary Hotel Arok, a welcome change of pace to end your time in Alsace.
  — Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2019
• Or, pace down Boulevard Zumardia between old town and city center—an attractive amble that includes a sidewalk dozens of feet wide.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
• On a quiet amble through the Wallace Desert Garden, a visitor can see birds atop the saguaros, pollinators on the vibrant red and yellow flowers of barrel cactuses, the clarity of the air in a place far from the city.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2020
• Andersson led research published in 2016 that identified the gene that grants Icelandic horses their unique amble.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021
• Skip the beach one morning for an amble through the historic capital city of St. George and discover a 300-year-old fortress with working cannons, stunning Georgian architecture, and, of course, an amazing spice market.
  — Paul Rubio, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
• Another Wilsonian hallmark is evident: a fondness for letting his right hand amble into the upper register only to swan dive down the keys with a great flourish.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Four of us watched the black bear amble through the valley below us.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2018
• The hotel is about a 15-minute amble along Somerville Avenue to the nucleus of Union Square.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• The cassowary tops out at 31 mph and easily keeps pace with your drunken amble.
  — Peter Stark, Outside Online, 25 June 2013
• For a luxurious amble of a run, the Brooks Levitate is your shoe.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• All the pre-match amble was about Jose Mourinho dropping four star players.
  — SI.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• Even so, there are pleasures to be had from a book that moves at an amble—that sometimes takes a detour for no reason except to admire the view.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• But even those of us not so anesthetized shouldn’t expect to be taking or following an easy, pleasant amble.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• But the pull of difference was matched with a sense, at least as strong, that the border didn’t so much divide two nations as amble over a contiguous region.
  — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• But a cockroach’s amble relies on more central control.
  — Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
• Walk your dinner off with a lazy amble along the canal before checking into the ultra-contemporary Hotel Arok, a welcome change of pace to end your time in Alsace.
  — Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2019
• Or, pace down Boulevard Zumardia between old town and city center—an attractive amble that includes a sidewalk dozens of feet wide.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
• On a quiet amble through the Wallace Desert Garden, a visitor can see birds atop the saguaros, pollinators on the vibrant red and yellow flowers of barrel cactuses, the clarity of the air in a place far from the city.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2020
• Andersson led research published in 2016 that identified the gene that grants Icelandic horses their unique amble.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024