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Example sentences for "rambled"

Lexicographically close words:
rals; raly; ram; ramal; ramble; rambler; ramblers; rambles; rambling; ramblings
  1. It was here that, on the morning following, old Granny Joslin stood in the door, pipe in mouth, looking up the long street, which rambled down from the hills.

  2. Her auditor turned away her face, so that her own amusement might not be seen, and the old lady rambled on, chewing at her pipe stem as she rode.

  3. One late afternoon as she rambled in the park she saw, framed in by trees as in a picture, the figure of a tall, slender, white-haired gentleman walking toward her.

  4. She had performed the pilgrimage under the expansive wing of Mrs. Jarvis; she had wandered alone over the mansion and rambled through the park, feeling delight in the old-world charm of the place.

  5. According to the state of the weather, the friends either sat talking in Ivy's room or rambled about the grounds, where many a pretty and sheltered spot was discoverable.

  6. Such glimpse as he had caught of the streets did not invite him forth, but neither could he sit unoccupied; as the weather was fair, he rambled for an hour or two.

  7. We Virginians had for some time been waging a war of intrusion upon them, and I, amongst the rest, rambled through the woods in pursuit of their race, as I now would follow the tracks of any ravenous animal.

  8. Travelling was recommended to her; and she rambled by easy journeys from cathedral to cathedral, and from watering- place to watering-place.

  9. He became tutor to a young English traveller, and appears to have rambled with his pupil over great part of Switzerland and Germany.

  10. Their surprise gave way to conjectures that your restless and romantic spirit had tempted you from your repose, that you had rambled abroad on some fantastic errand, and would probably return before the dawn.

  11. On Sundays, he always rambled away, no one knew whither, and without a companion.

  12. I told her that I was a traveller, who had unfortunately lost his way and had rambled in this wild till nearly famished for want.

  13. He was supposed to have rambled in the mountains, and to have lost his way, or to have met with some mischance.

  14. As these boys rambled over the fields, climbed trees, and played together, my little friend had to listen to a constant stream of oaths, pouring from the lips of his visitor.

  15. Breakfast over, they rambled over a large tobacco farm.

  16. She rambled on, as persons will who feel themselves to be on the defensive.

  17. Littered paths rambled aimlessly hither and thither from chip-strewn yards to starved patches of corn, under-cultivated and blighted.

  18. Facing the entrance the land fell away sharply to a miniature valley through which rambled a willow-bordered brook, in whose shallows short-horned cows stood lazily.

  19. Then, groping at its base, he lifted the ivy that had once rambled there and drew up the tangle again over the stone disk.

  20. I rambled off to the churchyard, and I have been at the Doctor's.

  21. So he rambled on, half-maddened by the pictures of the future which rose up in his mind.

  22. They rambled through all the old familiar songs of the range.

  23. Villages rambled away up tortuous valleys; here and there the green was dotted with chalk-white houses and whiter churches.

  24. We rambled on, but without success, for not another officer could we find in all our circuit of the city.

  25. As for myself, I rambled through her piping streets for half the afternoon because she is Spanish, and because my supply of currency was falling low.

  26. I rambled on in the cool of evening and by dark was housed in a good inn of the mountain village.

  27. Now and again donkey and trail rambled away independently over the thirsty hills, perhaps to return an hour beyond, more often to be swallowed up in the unknown.

  28. More and more like an elderly squire patrolling his acres, Lad rambled along, and presently his ears and his nose told him that his two loving friends Rex and Wolf were coming toward him on their home-bound way.

  29. Yes, sir," rambled on Marie, beginning to take a faint interest in the examination now that it turned upon Lad whom she loved.

  30. You gie'd me health, as in my plaÿ I rambled through ye, zunny woodlands!

  31. When they rambled through the woods, in search of berries, it was his delight to sit beside her on some old stump, and twist her glossy brown ringlets over his fingers.

  32. We rambled about in the pastures, and through beautiful groves of oak, beech and holly.

  33. And in such fashion Alice rambled on through the experiences of her long and full-packed life.

  34. Some day," old Kohokumu rambled on, "when I am really old, I shall be reported of men as drowned in the sea.

  35. A great Queen, a great reign, a great people," he rambled on, painting away all the while.

  36. She rambled on erratically, but Mary Compton heard her only as a vague murmur.

  37. Ernest came with him, of course, and they rambled about together all the time.

  38. For many an hour, too, they rambled about the crooked little streets of the lower town, which Hartley declared to be wondrously like a second Dieppe or Amiens.

  39. It was not until he had rambled joyously on and described to her a London summer and the advent of what they called "the silly season" that she asked him a pointed question or two about English scenery and English country life.

  40. They rambled about the caverns and arbours of the mountain, and sported under the bowers of tamala and mandara trees.

  41. The bee rambled at large amidst the flowery creepers of the forest, and resorted again to the bed of lotuses in the lake; because it is hard for fools to get rid of their fond desire, though it is attended with danger and peril.

  42. Utterly bewildered, the young man walked on without thought of direction, and rambled dreamily about the streets for an hour or two.

  43. I gave myself two half-hours for exercise and rambled in all sorts of weather about the sands and the deserted promenade.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rambled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.