ramble
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His answers began to ramble slightly as the interviews dragged on.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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
Speaking to The Times of London, he said that radio pop in 2026 is one long ramble.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
Joe and Kimberly let him ramble, politely try to make sense of what he’s saying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
Then he closed his eyes and began to ramble, speaking softly under his breath.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Among their findings: Weekend automobile rambles were replacing church attendance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
And the Rams had to deal with two of those soul-crushing rambles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
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
"I like the humour of his mind. I like the fact that he that he rambles on but, more than that, he's given me the opportunity to learn so much."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2023
On and on she rambles in a voice as shrill as the electric blender.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
For once, nobody rambled, nobody went off script, and almost everyone remembered to thank their mum.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
As they waited for her husband to return, the masked man rambled about himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Davis was really good at getting Trump to shut up when he rambled.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
During the 10-minute phone interview, he ranted and rambled and seemed to be accidentally pressing various buttons on his phone, punctuating the broadcast with random beeping—that is, until he was ultimately cut off.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2024
If one was busy, the other was there to listen as she rambled about her day, or help her with her homework, or whatever.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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
“Every time we talked about the prospect of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship,” he said during a long and at times rambling address.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Drake still has an impeccable ear for production and an incredible talent for hook-writing, much in the same way that Trump knows how to make rambling sentences sing via his unorthodox delivery.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
My own high-school senior, hearing I was writing about looksmaxxing, started rambling on about a classmate who spent days ranking boys in their school as low-, mid- and high-tier normies based on their facial features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Its music was sonorous, rambling, some of the turns unexpected and lovely.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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