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

Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Had he kept still, Peter would probably have ambled gently about the meadow, perhaps turned into the road that led to the house and barn, and Sunny’s adventure might have been a very mild one.

From Sunny Boy in the Country by Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis)

Shortly, they would have ambled into a stream and beyond, out of all possible control.

From The Weakling by Dongen, H. R. van