ambled

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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

Workers power-washed the sidewalk as Hernandez and I ambled on.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

After just three minutes, the towering Josh Lord ambled through a huge gap in a ruck before nonchalantly popping the ball off to scampering scrum-half Roigard.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

He was slow and sort of ambled from one place to another, usually looking for people he knew so he could ask to borrow a nickel.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe