How To Use Ambulate In A Sentence
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circumambulate
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Mother with her toddler perambulated the infant in tow.
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First he circumambulated to the right, then he worshipped the teacher's lotus feet with flowers made of jewels.
Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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You all studiously circumambulate this elephant in the room.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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They offer him a bargain price for as much land as he can circumambulate in a day, and he walks on and on, taking in more and more rich grasslands and damp, fertile hollows.
Greed R.I.P. (For Now)
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According to traditions, the selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.
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When the middle child married, and he was the only one of the three to do so, he brought his bride to reside in the tenement above the Orchard Street tailor shop, where, tilting first to one side and then the other (they ambulated more erratically than Can o" Beans), the Cohens daily performed their crab dance of life.
Skinny Legs and All
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He responded with a litany of places been and people seen and red carpets perambulated, of yachts boarded and eminent names placed next to him at fancy dinners.
Resurrected by the Wrath of Liz Smith
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We walked barefoot and circumambulated the outer walls of the temple.
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Unlike the Tuilleries, the Luxembourg is where Parisians go to perambulate.
What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
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While healthy elephants can trudge long distances in search of water, "weak and sick" animals are unable to "perambulate" and succumb, says forest veterinarian Dr N.S. Manoharan.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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I will allow for the moment that he somehow managed to endure the fall without losing the ability to ambulate.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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A month-long fast and purification ritual in which devout Muslims often make a pilgrimage to Mecca called a Hajj, in which they circumambulate a large square block until the music stops, at which point they must sit down immediately, much like in our game of musical chairs, where whoever is left standing is out.
Ian Gurvitz: Brother John McCain Explains It All For You
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Occupied all day with matters of vast moment, deeply anxious about the fate of the greatest army of the world, with his own fame and future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie and goodfellowship, that he gets out of bed and perambulates the house in his shirt to find us that we may share with him the fun.
The Five of Hearts
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John Aubrey, the antiquary, who "perambulated" Surrey in
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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And she perambulated around the outside of the house, investigating, looking to see if windows and shutters were secure and in order.
The Awakening
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According to traditions, the selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.
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Mounted in silver, it sits in the place of honor in the Ka'aba, the sacred shrine at Mecca, and is circumambulated by all Muslims who make The Hajj, the requisite holy pilgrimage there.
Donna Henes: Showered With Stars
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The boy was using arm crutches to ambulate, and his short legs moved in a wide and awkward manner that suggested he was sweeping the floor with his feet.
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Ten other patients ambulate with physical assistance and walkers (with and without braces).
October 19th, 2009
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Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the barbarous.
Love’s Labour ’s Lost
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Unspoken but understood was that we wanted a community small enough to perambulate but that also had DSL.
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But we had a fine fast food meal, and then ambulated to the stadium, which was a lot farther away than it looked.
WorldCon Day 2
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The energy expenditure needed to ambulate with an above-knee prosthesis is far greater than that needed with a below-knee prosthesis.
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Indeed, saying this, I recall one elderly Khampa, a former bodyguard who used to come each day to circumambulate my residence in Dharamsala (a popular devotion).
The Natural World
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Over the weekend I had a chance to perambulate properly in cyberspace.
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Then again, I'm positively balmy myself, so I was prepared to perambulate with a pack of pinniped pals.
Jerry Zezima: "Seals of Approval"
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That's because there are limits as to how creatures with two legs that bend at the back can ambulate efficiently and every human culture has a version that is not far away from it.
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The duke perambulated the boundary of his estate.
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When I had perambulated the length and breadth of the classes, M. Pelet turned and said to me — “Would you object to taking the boys as they are, and testing their proficiency in English?”
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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The spatial character of architectural mnemonics — that one would "perambulate" cloisters and palaces in the mind, composing narratives with the ornaments and images arrayed therein — reflects a phenomenological dimension to thought that may be quite foreign to a modern-day observer.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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He rotch 'down, an' he raise 'up de pumpkin, an' he perambulate 'right quick to he ma's shack, an' he lift 'up de latch, an' he open 'de do', an 'he yenter' in.
Humorous Ghost Stories
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During the Hajj, Muslims uniformly circumambulate around the Holy Kaaba in what is known as 'Tawaaf', irrespective of gender, nationality or sect.
Amin G. Aaser: The Case of Sheikh Al-Atar and a Call for Unity At Hajj
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Burnett ambulated to Bristol with me from Oxford. he is a worthy fellow whom I greatly esteem. we have a wild Welchman [12] red hot from the mountains at Balliol who would please & amuse you much. he is perfectly ignorant of the world but with all the honest warm feelings of Nature, & good head & a good heart.
Letter 96
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In the evening, hundreds of pilgrims circumambulate the stupa or meditate quietly in its shadows.
Kathmandu, Nepal
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As I perambulated, I noticed a fellow mount a department store mountain bike in front of a restaurant and then ride away.
BSNYC Firday Fun Quiz!
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Go on, now: bust a move, or whatever it is you homeboys do to help you perambulate.
The Whisperers
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Stupid is the stripling who perambulates with swicidal swordswomen.
Archive 2008-03-01
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From my own experience of reading parties, I should select as their peculiar characteristics, a tendency to hats and caps of such remarkable shapes, as, if once sported in the college quadrangle, would be the subject of a common-room _instanter_; and, among some individuals (whom we may call the peripatetic philosophers of the party) a predilection for seedy shooting-coats and short pipes, with which they perambulate the neighbourhood to the marvel of the aboriginal inhabitants; while those whom we may class with the stoics, display a preference for dressing-gowns and meerschaums, and confine themselves principally to the doorways and open windows of their respective lodgings.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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The added handicap is that runners have to dodge the horse dung as they perambulate down the track.
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With reporters building entire edifices of Palin speculation based on Runner's World photos of Palin preparing to run (quickly ambulate, that is, rather than pursue political office) and amidst the flurry of liberal talk show jokes deriding Palin's intelligence it's understandable that many Americans who might not support Sarah Palin's political views are nonetheless coming to see Palin as a victim.
Bruce Wilson: Palin Says She'll Stump for Democrats, Hints at Third Party
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No, to perambulate this terraqueous globe is too small a range; were it permitted, he should at least make the tour of the whole system of the sun.
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Five minutes previously, François somnambulated his way into our bedroom with the shark in question (stuffed, of course,) and sleepily piped up "Cats don't eat sharks.
Alex McCord: Cats on Keyboards and Job Hunting Online
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They sat by the ficus tree as the bourgeoisie — haute, middle, and low — of Matar ambulated past in the Muzak hush of the mall.
Florence of Arabia (Part II)
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Lung cancer, for instance, might start as a spicular nodule in the lung, then unmoor itself and ambulate unexpectedly into the brain.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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As the crowd perambulated among the hellebores and hostas, enjoying the plentiful supplies of champagne and canapes and admiring the elegant garden furniture and sculpture on sale, musicians played.
They Must Think Cabbages, Not Carats
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oh go on wayne, you are not. you've somnambulated through life from one talking point to the next with nary a stray spike in the e.e.g. to indicate consciousness.
... whereupon he smote reality a mighty blow.
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They will circumambulate the stadium once and then take the torches to the cauldron.
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I find myself having to tell my students to unlearn this tendency by, among others, asking them to throw their thesaurus away, especially when the only reason they turn to it is to find a fancier word for something as basic as “talk” (expostulate?) or “walk” (perambulate?)
Archive 2010-03-01
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According to traditions, the selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.
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But for many of us, pedestrians are the major threat, particularly when they perambulate in an iPod bubble.
Two Wheels that Tame Your City
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Unlike the Tuilleries, the Luxembourg is where Parisians go to perambulate.
What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
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Our adventurer expected to see in Mr Jacobs a withered and filthy old being, similar in external appearance to those of his race who then perambulated the metropolis as dealers in cast-off clothing.
Ralph Rashleigh
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Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years
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The duke perambulated the boundary of his estate.
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The men of the Company stood on parade while their officers perambulated.
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Her lumbar drain and indwelling Foley catheter was removed the morning after surgery, and she ambulated in the hall later that morning.
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Occupied all day with matters of vast moment, deeply anxious about the fate of the greatest army of the world, with his own fame and future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie and goodfellowship, that he gets out of bed and perambulates the house in his shirt to find us that we may share with him the fun.
The Five of Hearts
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According to traditions, the selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.
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Lung cancer, for instance, might start as a spicular nodule in the lung, then unmoor itself and ambulate unexpectedly into the brain.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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He got up and successfully ambulated on parallel bars without much difficulty.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
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The narrow opening supported a child's body and encouraged children to perambulate by keeping them from sitting down or crawling.
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I had an uncle that somnambulated, and he used to hide the sheets in an old carriage in the barn.
Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen
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In my Virginia hometown, people perambulated when they could not drive at a pace somewhere between a saunter and a stroll.
The Infuriating Smartphone Saunter
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There was constant movement in front of the palace gate as pilgrims circumambulated the base of Red Mountain in a clockwise direction.
Rachel Dickinson: Tibet Before the Train (PHOTOS)
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He rotch down, an 'he raise up de pumpkin, an' he perambulate right quick to he ma's shack, an 'he lift up de latch, an' he open de do ', an' he yenter in.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
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Corporation, preceded by Sword-bearer, Beadles, and Blue Coat School boys, going in procession from one city boundary-stone to another, across the meadows and the river, or over hedges and gardens, or anything else to which the perambulated border-line took them.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
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You've ambulated, you've taken an unaided shit, and the Utilization Management coordinator just wrote your discharge order.
Blogtimore, Hon
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It was a grassy, briery, moist defile, affording some shelter to any person who had sought it; but the party perambulated it in vain, and ascended on the other side.
Wessex Tales
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The short figure of the paraman ambulated somewhat stiffly through the doorway, negotiating the rugs with care.
The Dragon Lensman
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He will then be progressively ambulated and continue his recuperation at home.
CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2004