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In Don Quixote, which horse realizes it can "amble freely" when its reins are dropped?

amble

[am-buhl] / ˈæm bΙ™l /


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An amble through the neighborhood showcases a variety of places, often packed with locals, tourists, cabbies and third-shift workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Their split-second choice to amble over to the former consolidated the prediction that Mexico will emerge as the winner of the highly anticipated match on June 11.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

Civilian gawkers amble up the road, snapping photos with the accumulating floral tributes.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

In Potterspury, near Milton Keynes, hundreds of free-range turkeys usually amble around farmer Susan Gorst, pecking at the grass.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

For the next thirty minutes Walt and Billie walk quietly around the decrepit vehicle, amble down to the Sushana River, visit the nearby woods.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara is chatting away in traditional Wassoulou clothes, while Johnny Marr ambles past in an equally traditional Mancunian parka.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

And when Mitch leaves the building and ambles out into the New York City streets, it looks as though their number won’t happen.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

In automatic mode, the car ambles down the boulevard, murmuring, simmering and keeping its immensity hidden from polite society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Illustrated with mouthwatering photos, most of them by local food photographer Charity Burggraaf, the book ambles season-by-season through the fields, forests, farmers markets and seashores of the Pacific Northwest, highlighting ingredients that inspire Wahlke.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

I’m heading over to the table with my full plate, the smell making me want to walk on my hands, when Jude’s bad mood ambles in.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Matt James, the leading man on Season 25 of “The Bachelor,” ambled around with his mother in a T-shirt that read, “Raw Milk Club.”

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

As I ambled past groups doing yoga and vacationing families lounging on the grass, pain started to radiate through my ankles and up my shinbones before settling uncomfortably in my hips.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

The beloved children's character ambled into the world in 1926 in a book written by English author A.A.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

As he ambled toward the woods, West yelled “Hey bear, get out of here bear, go!” and fired powder balls from a paintball gun at him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

The line of them stretched down the road for what seemed like a mile as all fifteen ambled toward the church.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

But The Guardian described it, external as a "slow and ambling show" that "moved with all the urgency of the recently tranquillised".

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

He was known for regularly ambling by and commandeering these tour groups to show off whatever latest project he had going or demonstrate the precise and persnickety method he’d perfected for planting a tree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

This turn has directly benefited Dokoupil, who was previously ambling around the network’s morning show before getting tapped as its evening leading man.

From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2026

As I read this book, I went on long, ambling walks along the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

“You shut up,” the man answered, ambling forward another couple of steps.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner




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