Example Sentences

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In the Asia session, there were signs the cavalry is ambling to the rescue in China.

From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2023

While his friends are enjoying retirement on the golf course, Leeper is ambling down the school hallways with a smile.

From Washington Times • Dec. 3, 2016

“This child,” she says to my dad, who is ambling over to us, “is an escape artist! I need four sets of eyes with her!”

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

"No fear of that, master," and the stockman slips the cheque into his leather pouch, and within an hour he is ambling off upon his long-limbed horse on his hundred-mile journey to town.

From The Captain of the Polestar by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Lord Cobbam, as the footman, is holding fast on by the straps; while Lord Lyttleton is ambling by the side on a rosinante as thin as himself.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter