amble
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Their split-second choice to amble over to the former consolidated the prediction that Mexico will emerge as the winner of the highly anticipated match on June 11.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
Civilian gawkers amble up the road, snapping photos with the accumulating floral tributes.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
Visitors to the Holly museum would amble over those specs as they arrived and departed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Described as a thriving neighbourhood, Canton was rated for its selection of shops and cafes "which are well worth the amble out of town".
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Even so, I was looking forward to what I hoped would be a climactic amble.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
He ambles to it and he takes his time.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
And when Mitch leaves the building and ambles out into the New York City streets, it looks as though their number won’t happen.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
In automatic mode, the car ambles down the boulevard, murmuring, simmering and keeping its immensity hidden from polite society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The Italian instruction record that plays in the background as Tom ambles about his host’s art-filled villa mirrors his ambition: “How much money do you need?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Then he climbs down, slips his hand inside Pete’s, and ambles off on bowed legs.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
On a recent summer day at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, students ambled through yawns, braces and acne into their creative writing class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Matt James, the leading man on Season 25 of “The Bachelor,” ambled around with his mother in a T-shirt that read, “Raw Milk Club.”
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
As I ambled past groups doing yoga and vacationing families lounging on the grass, pain started to radiate through my ankles and up my shinbones before settling uncomfortably in my hips.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
The beloved children's character ambled into the world in 1926 in a book written by English author A.A.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
The half-wolf sled dogs became frantic with bloodlust whenever the cat ambled by over head.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
But The Guardian described it, external as a "slow and ambling show" that "moved with all the urgency of the recently tranquillised".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Over and over again, I heard the exact same refrain from the visitors ambling around the Strip.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
All over Europe this week, soccer players from the biggest clubs in the game began ambling back to work ahead of the new season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2025
After finally getting out of the car, he went inside a school building for a few minutes before ambling across the street to the historic church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
A huge white horse, of the kind that the people who know horses would call a “grey,” came ambling up the side of the hill.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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