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Example sentences for "ambling"

Lexicographically close words:
ambivalence; ambivalent; amble; ambled; ambles; ambo; ambon; ambos; ambra; ambre
  1. Virgie on her ambling pony keeping pace beside him, into the gulch and on.

  2. The artist, Aubrey Beardsley, made a wonderful drawing of this passage--a spectral white charger ambling through a dark wood of pines, bearing a lady in a cloak of black velvet.

  3. The melody progressed to that marvellous passage which Beardsley saw in line as a white horse ambling through a dark wood of pines, ridden by a lady in a dress of black velvet.

  4. It is constantly observed that these horses become the sires of a race to which the ambling pace is natural, and requires no teaching.

  5. Thomas Johnson came ambling up the drive about half-past six, and we could hear him clattering around on the lower floor, opening shutters.

  6. If you lay off any time for a few days, rehearse him with the spike a couple of times just before you begin again, or else he might forget it and queer the turn by ambling around with the first outside rube that mounts him.

  7. He had seen Sir Humphrey Challoner and Mittachip ambling up the hillside.

  8. So the maid rode on by the way a soft ambling pace.

  9. The bull now began very slowly ambling towards them.

  10. The cab, which had seemed to hesitate and start, as though jibbing at something in the road, resumed its ambling pace.

  11. A woman, on an ambling palfrey of the cayuse denomination, rode down the mountain path to the cabin, and alighted.

  12. The way was long, my ambling steed has a ringbone on the off leg, and thou chidest me, thy erring swain, without a cause.

  13. As the regulator was ambling along he put his two fingers to his mouth and accidentally(?

  14. But like in a horse on whose neck the bridle is cast, what began in a gentle ambling ends in wild gallopping; so lawful merriment, if unrestrained, often ends in what is unbeseeming, and in some sort blameable.

  15. Starbuck checked the car's speed a little more to keep it well in the rear of the ambling cavalcade.

  16. Civilization has taken its time ambling down the centuries, but the short cuts to the primitive are neither hard to find nor long to traverse.

  17. So he left Mr. Bounderby swelling at his own portrait on the wall, as if he were going to explode himself into it; and Mrs. Sparsit still ambling on with her foot in her stirrup, looking quite cast down by the popular vices.

  18. On your ambling wit, and must use your glib tongue, Though you are beaten lame for't.

  19. Happy Jack, reining his horse out to turn back an ambling steer; and while all hands watched him eagerly he struck into a rough trot across the plain.

  20. But being of the same surly breed with his captain, 'twas full three of the clock before he came ambling back with an order to set me forthwith upon the road to headquarters.

  21. Jennifer was silent for an ambling minute or two.

  22. The guide fastened on one of Henry's ears and started for the trail, Henry ambling along meekly at her side.

  23. Henry came ambling in at this juncture and, sitting down, began washing his face with his paws, giving not the slightest heed to the tirade that Joe Shafto was hurling at him.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ambling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambling; cautious; circumspect; crawling; creeping; deliberate; easy; faltering; flagging; footing; footwork; gentle; gradual; halting; hiking; idle; indolent; languid; languorous; lazy; leisurely; limping; lumbering; marching; moderate; poking; poky; relaxed; reluctant; shuffling; slack; slothful; slow; sluggish; staggering; strolling; tentative; toddling; tottering; tramping; trudging; unhurried; walking