ramble
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His fusion of speaking and singing allows him to ramble as he embraces absurdity, non sequiturs and free association with a stand-up comic’s sense of timing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
He could come off as a know-it-all, and he tended to ramble when speaking.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025
But, no objective observer could describe such a life as a "ramble".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024
But ultimately, ABC’s decision to let Trump ramble at times felt judicious.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024
A boy could walk out through the garden gate and straight into the rye, and beyond that into meadows strewn with wildflowers to pick, pine forests to ramble in, and streams to follow.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
Usually when a person rambles, myself included, it’s because they don’t feel comfortable with the person to whom they are talking.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Among their findings: Weekend automobile rambles were replacing church attendance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
He then played a clip in which Trump rambles about his White House ballroom in response to a reporter’s question about how he was handling Kirk’s death.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025
And the Rams had to deal with two of those soul-crushing rambles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
It used to go with Bunny and me on long, grueling rambles through the countryside every Sunday, over fences and streams, through bogs and pastures.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Asked about defending Taiwan, she rambled about making sure “we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
For once, nobody rambled, nobody went off script, and almost everyone remembered to thank their mum.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
As usual, Harbaugh rambled on and on about his on-field leader but failed to explain how Herbert made the plays he made on the final drive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024
Davis was really good at getting Trump to shut up when he rambled.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
This was the way Zane rambled when their parents asked him about his most recent report card.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
During the war, he baffled international negotiators with rambling diatribes on Serbian history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
I sent him a rambling voice memo, trying to convey my bewilderment as best as I could.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Herb Alpert walks up a long driveway at his rambling Malibu estate, wincing slightly after having woken up around 3 a.m. with a cramp in his left calf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The book also compared the UK to a "rambling stately home" in which the power was only on in some rooms.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
He jabbered, rambling, moving about in his chair.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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