How to Use amble in a Sentence

amble

1 of 2 verb
  • They ambled down the road.
  • We ambled along as we talked.
  • Puffy clouds amble over chunky meringue-peak mountains.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • This shaded area is worth ambling through even if children are not in tow.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With four minutes left on the game clock, an arena staffer ambles over.
    — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The big bull just ambled off, never showing any sign of distress.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Declan Rice took his sweet time ambling over to take their corners.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
  • One resident ambled to the front of the room for seconds.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The neighbors’ horses sometimes amble up to the fence to watch.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Groups of monkeys amble by the side of dusty brown roads, while eagles glide overhead.
    — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There was a lot of feet-shuffling in the mostly-standing crowd as the first set ambled along.
    — William Earl, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Rescue dogs amble around the living room, and once-stray cats lounge atop her childhood bed.
    — Kevin Canfield, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Others amble about, taking in a view of the city that seems to go on forever.
    — Abdi Ibrahim, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Masked people stood alone with documents under a clear sky as the queue ambled on.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 1 May 2020
  • While authorities were talking to the group, a dog ambled over to the camp.
    — The Washington Post, al, 13 May 2019
  • Throughout the night, attendees amble back and forth between the gallery and the bar.
    — Curbed, 30 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Or, if shepherding isn’t your thing, feel free to amble down the mountain alongside the herd.
    — Danielle Bernabe, National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • There are no seafood boils, though who wouldn’t want to amble back into the office stinking of crawfish?
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the video, people wearing masks amble through the aisles, grabbing food, medicine, soap and other items.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Book a tour or amble solo through the Château De Versailles and its grounds.
    — Elly Leavitt, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023
  • When all this is over, words like mosey and browse and stroll and amble will come back into the conversation again.
    — Beth Thames |[email protected], al, 3 Mar. 2021
  • 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

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
  • My favorite booth appears towards the end of my amble.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • Your feet and legs will get wet on this amble through the Virgin River.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2025
  • The curvy singletrack ambles at a slight downhill through pines and junipers on the flank of rocky hills.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The march turned out to be more of an amble, and many of the chants were about social-democratic issues.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • During our amble around town, Menezes pointed out more than two dozen types of fruit-bearing trees.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2024
  • The cassowary tops out at 31 mph and easily keeps pace with your drunken amble.
    — Peter Stark, Outside Online, 25 June 2013
  • 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
  • All the pre-match amble was about Jose Mourinho dropping four star players.
    — SI.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The hotel is about a 15-minute amble along Somerville Avenue to the nucleus of Union Square.
    — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 3 June 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
  • In addition to ambles, the Cady Hill trail network welcomes skiers, snowshoers, and mountain bikers depending on the season.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • With this in mind, finding flats that provide amble support, traction, and flexibility when walking is important to ensure long-lasting comfort.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Andersson led research published in 2016 that identified the gene that grants Icelandic horses their unique amble.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Just give yourself more than three days to enjoy morning cappuccinos, cannoli (the Ligurian variety), long ambles, and maybe even a game of bocce with the locals.
    — Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Here in the land made famous by Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose meditative ambles inspired some of the greatest poems of the Romantic period, walkers set off for seven days.
    — Everett Potter, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Nocturnal tourism done poorly, with bright spotlights that blind animals, off-trail moonlit ambles that destroy foliage, or unnecessary hotel illumination, can decimate local ecosystems.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Settling the score, meanwhile, is Randy Newman, whose fourth Pixar collaboration ambles along agreeably, accompanied by drivin’ tunes performed by Rascal Flatts, Sheryl Crow and Brad Paisley that are perfect for coasting along those alternate routes.
    — Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026

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