ramble
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In plain language, that means he’s probably going to ramble late into the night about a bunch of baseless conspiracy theories.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
We had planned to visit one of the city’s renowned art museums, but instead opted for a ramble through the Dorsoduro district.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
He could come off as a know-it-all, and he tended to ramble when speaking.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025
Joe and Kimberly let him ramble, politely try to make sense of what he’s saying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
We share secretive smiles as Connor continues to ramble on and on.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
Usually when a person rambles, myself included, it’s because they don’t feel comfortable with the person to whom they are talking.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Among their findings: Weekend automobile rambles were replacing church attendance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Hendrickson rambles for too long before redirecting to his client, asking Lynch about some sort of media venture he’s working on.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2024
The sure-why-not plot, modeled on the California water grab in “Chinatown,” is less interesting than the charismatic cast that rambles along with Pine on his excellent adventure.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
He rambles on about how delicious it is, which should be encouraging if you don't know what fever does to people.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
Asked about defending Taiwan, she rambled about making sure “we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
For once, nobody rambled, nobody went off script, and almost everyone remembered to thank their mum.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
And then others would say, ‘Oh, he rambled.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
Gaffigan as Walz played up his Midwestern dad-ness and Carvey's Biden rambled while repeatedly calling Thompson's Harvey the name of other game show hosts.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024
“Did you hear the way she rambled on about the animals, pretending that they talked?”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
In rural Holguín province, about 420 miles east of Havana, she visited Castro’s childhood home, a rambling wooden farmhouse that is now a national monument and museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The bulk of these pages are written in the voice of Eddy’s castmate Jordan Brown, who is giving a rambling, unfiltered interview to a journalist from Out magazine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
In 1962, the Saar family moved to a rambling hillside home in Laurel Canyon, then a very rustic part of L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The book also compared the UK to a "rambling stately home" in which the power was only on in some rooms.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
I could just picture him, all weak-kneed, propped up in the phone booth, rambling away.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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