amble
verb (used without object)
to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter.
have ambled
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present perfectof amble.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The song’s protagonist seems to have ambled straight out of the dustbowl, an everyman doomed by luckless love to roam, rootless and alone, in constant search of redemptive purpose.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 2017
A lesser cow would have ambled placidly off to the butcher but the Erskine cow, like the Erskine Helen, had spirit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Afterward Kenny thought that Nellie must have ambled into the doctor's barnyard and turned herself, for he had no memory of guiding her.
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
He couldn't have ambled more than three blocks and have remained on the street.
From Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
