- present participle of ramble.
rambling
Example Sentences
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This first half is plotless and rambling, with a crime mystery yielding digressions within digressions within digressions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
“Every time we talked about the prospect of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship,” he said during a long and at times rambling address.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Drake still has an impeccable ear for production and an incredible talent for hook-writing, much in the same way that Trump knows how to make rambling sentences sing via his unorthodox delivery.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
But then, buried among all those rambling journal entries and essays on pop culture, I discovered a hidden message.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Vocabulary lists containing rambling
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"The History Teacher" by Billy Collins
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