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amble
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
ambles; ambled; ambling
ambles; ambled; ambling
Learner's definition of AMBLE
always followed by an adverb or preposition [no object]
: to walk slowly in a free and relaxed way缓行；漫步
- We ambled along as we talked.我们边谈话边漫步向前。
- They ambled down/up/along the road.他们沿着马路缓步走着。
- We spent the day ambling [=strolling, sauntering] through the park.我们花了一天时间在公园里闲逛。
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Verb We ambled along as we talked. They ambled down the road. Noun we had a lovely amble about the quaint village before continuing our drive
Recent Examples on the Web
Phil Kloer, ajc, 16 Aug. 2022 The only cellphone reception is on a single hilltop, where teenagers and soldiers anxiously amble around in search of a signal. Gabe Joselow, NBC News, 9 June 2022 Start at Stars and Stripes Park, at the southern end of the reservoir, and amble through forested areas and neighborhood streets. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 8 June 2020 After picking out the bedrooms for their kids (painting a possible picture of reality TV’s next big blended family?), the lovebirds amble out to the backyard and promptly plop into lounge chairs. Vogue, 22 Apr. 2022 Then amble through the 5-acre garden first lovingly planted in the 1970s by Amir Dialameh after a brush fire left a landscape of scorched earth and tree stumps. Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022 Groups of people, most of them gay men, many of them naked, amble down the beach toward a soaring rocky outcrop. New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022 Others amble about, taking in a view of the city that seems to go on forever. Abdi Ibrahim, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022 Under the glow of a halogen dangling upon a fence stood the seven runners, about to amble off into the dark and return again. Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022 Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022 The hotel is about a 15-minute amble along Somerville Avenue to the nucleus of Union Square. Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 3 June 2022 What seemed at first to be their daring getaway would later be downgraded to a liberatory amble: The steers had merely drifted out of the pen that held them at the Star Packing Company on Cote Brilliante Avenue. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022 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 Born and raised in San Clemente, Calif., the son of a professional surfer from the 1980s and early ’90s, Andino has always been a short amble away from the steady break at T Street and the sporadic pumpers at Upper and Lower Trestles. New York Times, 20 July 2021 Andersson led research published in 2016 that identified the gene that grants Icelandic horses their unique amble. Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021 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 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 See More
Verb
The trains amble along at a top speed of 20 miles per hour, frequently less, as an attendant in each car supplies a running commentary of history, statistics, points of interest and maybe some dad jokes. Phil Kloer, ajc, 16 Aug. 2022 The only cellphone reception is on a single hilltop, where teenagers and soldiers anxiously amble around in search of a signal. Gabe Joselow, NBC News, 9 June 2022 Start at Stars and Stripes Park, at the southern end of the reservoir, and amble through forested areas and neighborhood streets. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 8 June 2020 After picking out the bedrooms for their kids (painting a possible picture of reality TV’s next big blended family?), the lovebirds amble out to the backyard and promptly plop into lounge chairs. Vogue, 22 Apr. 2022 Then amble through the 5-acre garden first lovingly planted in the 1970s by Amir Dialameh after a brush fire left a landscape of scorched earth and tree stumps. Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022 Groups of people, most of them gay men, many of them naked, amble down the beach toward a soaring rocky outcrop. New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022 Others amble about, taking in a view of the city that seems to go on forever. Abdi Ibrahim, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022 Under the glow of a halogen dangling upon a fence stood the seven runners, about to amble off into the dark and return again. Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022 Noun
While holding a fine-china coffee cup, Johnny asks the Dancing Kid for a cigarette and McIvers for a light, drawing his requests out to a faux-amiable amble. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022 The hotel is about a 15-minute amble along Somerville Avenue to the nucleus of Union Square. Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 3 June 2022 What seemed at first to be their daring getaway would later be downgraded to a liberatory amble: The steers had merely drifted out of the pen that held them at the Star Packing Company on Cote Brilliante Avenue. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022 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 Born and raised in San Clemente, Calif., the son of a professional surfer from the 1980s and early ’90s, Andino has always been a short amble away from the steady break at T Street and the sporadic pumpers at Upper and Lower Trestles. New York Times, 20 July 2021 Andersson led research published in 2016 that identified the gene that grants Icelandic horses their unique amble. Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021 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 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 See More Word History
Etymology
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
First Known Use
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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