[
UK
/ɹˈæmblɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɹæmbəɫɪŋ, ˈɹæmbɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæmbəɫɪŋ, ˈɹæmbɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly
straggly hair
straggling branches
sprawling handwriting -
of a path e.g.
a winding country road
rambling forest paths
the river followed its wandering course
meandering streams -
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
his excursive remarks
a rambling discursive book
amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things
a rambling speech about this and that
How To Use rambling In A Sentence
- Rambling, no voice projection, no point to their speech, nearly Dadaist slides. Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s PowerPoint Problem
- I was madly scrambling into my drysuit while Bill got the details from the divers, who had been drifting with this group for an hour or so.
- Some scrambling is involved but nothing too severe.
- They grew up within walking distance of the countryside and spent much of their time either rambling or in the local bookshop. Times, Sunday Times
- Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam. COMPULSION
- In front of the world's golf media, the 13-time PGA Tour winner gave a long, rambling and often confusing account of his own life and times.
- They cheer as they spill out of their cars, scrambling up the wrought-iron gate and backflipping into the yard like an invading army. THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE
- As she entered, I was standing in front of the oversized mirror wedged in between a dozen or so teenaged girls all scrambling to restore their fallen bouffants.
- He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions.
- In interview, he'll often segue into a boorish, rambling mode which - while always hilarious - still seems like performance.
