How to Use ramble in a Sentence

ramble

1 of 2 verb

• He's funny, but he tends to ramble.
• She rambled for several minutes before introducing the main speaker.
• Cox, who prefers cannabis to drink, can ramble on a bit.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• The whole Western world waned to sell the farm and ramble down Route 66 in one of these machines.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2020
• They're meant to be drunk over the course of the entire day at long, rambling college parties.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 Dec. 2023
• Take off isn’t a raging, rambling rush down the runway.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2018
• The story takes a while to get going, then rambles a lot once the premise has been established.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• After a quick dip, the bear exited the water, rambled over a wall and climbed up a tree near the rear of the house, police said.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• This little book samples his rambling chats with friend Traubel in the last years of Whitman’s life.
  — John Timpane, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• Zac would throw his arms in the air and ramble on and on and on about how his father had worked the mill beside people of color.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• Just minutes from Cannes, the rambling Château de la Napoule stretches along a Mediterranean beach.
  — Laura Van Straaten, Town & Country, 6 June 2019
• Three steps are easy to remember and can help get your points across without rambling.
  — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
• Trump, for his part, sent a defiant, rambling six-page letter to the House on Tuesday night.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2019
• So, how does all my rambling relate to Culture—and its ugliest truth?
  — Todd Nordstrom, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Anyway, not sure why this anniversary has made me ramble on so much but ….
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• The front, which opens onto the street is a two-story, rambling structure with a serene and laid-back charm that is all about mature trees and a wrap-around front porch.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• In her 10-minute rambling speech, Lori claimed that Tylee suffered from pancreatitis and was in pain most of her life.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• Franklin’s Jalen Ward took a simple handoff and rambled 80 yards a play after the opening kickoff for a 7-0 lead.
  — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2019
• Since then, Pulliam has sent the AG more than a dozen rambling complaints, including three last month.
  — Brian Chasnoff, ExpressNews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• The pod is not a rambling conversation, and the sound quality and editing is good.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• Byrne’s comments on the issue have been rambling, and at times incoherent and vague.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 23 Aug. 2019
• Then, Oregon’s Jonathan Stewart rambles 48 yards to set up Oregon for field goal attempt of its own.
  — oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2019
• Then, my girls and I moved into a rambling old rental a few towns away, another beautiful house that wasn’t ours.
  — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Georgia Tech needed no big rally to ramble into the Sweet 16.
  — Jim Vertuno, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
• Still, this isn’t a slow, daydreamy ramble through remote regions.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• In the rambling hillside yard, Bullard added an outdoor kitchen, fire pit, fountain, and lounging areas.
  — Stephen Pappas, ELLE Decor, 25 Aug. 2023
• Running back Carson Steele, on fourth-and-1, rambled 13 yards off tackle for a score while barely touched.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Pay close attention while the host rambles on about remodelling the guest room and her new Tempur-Pedic mattress.
  — Emily Menez, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Towel was key In an unusual move, Ewers took the witness stand on Wednesday, mostly rambling on about issues that had little to do with the crime.
  — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• Its strongest scenes follow the pair’s rambling conversations, conducted along city streets, or in ink-blue back-yard pools.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024

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ramble

2 of 2 noun

• We went for a ramble along the beach.
• We had to listen to another one of his long rambles about politics and religion.
• He encountered many interesting people in his rambles in the country.
• The first chapter is a 100-page ramble.
• But there is still time for an autumn ramble through the city.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• The oldest guest to make the ramble was 90 years old and the youngest, carted in a stroller, had not yet had their first birthday.
  — New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• That included a 45-yard jaunt that set up the third Irish touchdown and a 53-yard ramble in the fourth quarter.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 10 Nov. 2019
• Judd Apatow, at least, is a man who knows a self-aware ramble.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• Because that may be his first thought of the moment or his first ramble or his first raving.
  — NBC News, 25 Aug. 2019
• Kennedy, perched atop the drum riser of Brent Fitz, led the crowd, who waved their arms over their heads as the song’s ending unfurled in a jam-like ramble.
  — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• The rest of the speech was a free-form ramble, as Trump careened from grievances to fear-mongering to goofiness.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• The shaded wrap-around porch is a lovely spot to sip a hazy IPA and take a brisket break on a summer ramble down Highway 1.
  — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 29 July 2019
• Instead of a straight shot out and back across the country, maybe this is the year for a circular ramble in a state with less expensive gas.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
• British Car Day Fancy a ramble through ye olde park whilst perusing the finest motor cars from dear old Blighty?
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2018
• Airbnb made my three-week ramble through Spain easier and better.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
• Our splendid ramble traces the southern edge of Ennerdale Water, the park’s most westerly lake—and one of its most remote.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• What if Central Park, instead of a romantic landscape of rolling lawns, woods and rambles, were as formal as Versailles?
  — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• Streamed from London’s Southwark Playhouse, the play set Potter on a rapid ramble through a troubled mind, barbed with resentment.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• There are dolmens hidden out here in the jagged ramble and sobbing wind, ancient monoliths built by pre-historic farmers.
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
• The place to start your rambles is King Street, which begins at the Potomac River waterfront and extends for some five miles, although most of the 160 shops and restaurants are along a one-mile stretch close to the river.
  — Patti Nickell, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
• Hikers who want to explore parts of Griffith Park will meet up at 6 p.m. for a ramble followed by yoga (donation based).
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• The galleries are big, neutral, and arranged to welcome a ramble or something more programmed and disciplined.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
• It was followed by a secret and emotional ramble from Khrushchev about the spectre of nuclear holocaust.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2022
• There was plenty of power running, but also enough on the edges, plus a handful of fly sweeps and the occasional ramble by quarterback Chance Nolan, to keep the Trojans on their heels.
  — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2021
• Nothing in my nearly seven decades’ knowledge of Harvard (which started with preschool in 1952) prepared me for this lonely ramble.
  — Daniel Pipes, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2021
• Yet there’s a way in which their girl-group identity seems reimagined for the twenty-first century—freed from the confines of tight matching dresses and set loose for a casual ramble through the city.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2019
• Adventurous styling makes a ramble in the Pyrenees into an expedition through avant-garde pieces that go from runway to rugged.
  — WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
• Fortunately, the portion of the Sea Beach line the pair chose for their ramble has been closed to train traffic for station rehabilitation.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
• If the streaming revolution is going to reduce every show to a plotless ramble through an alternate world, why not this one?
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
• Normal is just that, a dignified and comfortable ramble.
  — By Brian Melton, star-telegram.com, 7 June 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024