amble
verb (used without object)
to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter.
are ambling
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present progressiveof amble.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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That is Dyer’s own brief accounting of his subjects; in other words, everything up to the edge of death, that sheer cliff toward which all of us are ambling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
They are ambling, dawdling and slouching to lunches, drinks and work meetings, powered by insouciance rather than haste.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
In the passages that meander underneath Somerset House and King's College London, groups of people are ambling, bemused, trying to make sense of images of innovation, change and decay.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2013
It might seem disappointing that in the 21st century, our best consumer robots are ambling waste collectors like Roombas and DustCarts.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2011
And we in the chariots are ambling on like this!
From Marcus: the Young Centurion by George Manville Fenn
