ambo

Example Sentences

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There is also an entirely new "ambo" team that has been created to care for the patients who can't even get into the corridors.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2023

Claire Fraser is the senior sister heading the day's "ambo" team.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2023

The ambo had two ascents—one from the east, and the other from the west.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

He chooses two numbers every week, according to what occurs to him as though he were going in for an ambo and, instead of buying a ticket, puts four soldi into an earthenware money-box. 

From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing

When an ambo is played for, the same two numbers may be played as single numbers, either al posto or senza posto, and in such case one of the numbers alone may win.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various