[
UK
/ɹˈæmbəl/
]
[ US /ˈɹæmbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæmbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- an aimless amble on a winding course
VERB
-
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
The cattle roam across the prairie
They rolled from town to town
The gypsies roamed the woods
roving vagabonds
the laborers drift from one town to the next
the wandering Jew -
continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
This novel rambles on and jogs
How To Use ramble In A Sentence
- She's getting old and she tends to ramble a bit.
- Despite the lateness of the hour Annabel gathered her skirts and prepared to take a solitary ramble in the garden.
- I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
- Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
- Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
- She learned to scramble around and even run sideways, but not forward.
- They evidently find the densely planted crop a satisfactory alternative to the nettles and brambles that they generally build in. Times, Sunday Times
- The arrival of the charity van set off a minor riot as villagers scrambled for a share of the aid.
- The family made the amazing find while on a nature ramble in the woods.
- Those buyers not up to speed might find they are left behind in the scramble to get onto the property ladder. Times, Sunday Times
