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ramble

[ram-buhl] / ˈræm bəl /






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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

But, more often, he presented it as "a chapter of accidents" and "a diverting and enjoyable ramble through life".

From BBC Sep. 22, 2024

But ultimately, ABC’s decision to let Trump ramble at times felt judicious.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2024

“That tendency to ramble, to elaborate on stream of consciousness and to brag shamelessly — all of those things have become much stronger, and much less coherent than in 2016 and 2020,” Rowland said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2024

I figured out after our last two chats how you keep asking me questions so that I'll ramble on, and then you don't have to write so much.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold

Among their findings: Weekend automobile rambles were replacing church attendance.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

He rambles on: “We are even adding Battleships, which are 100 times more powerful than the ones that roamed the Seas during World War II.”

From Slate Feb. 6, 2026

And the Rams had to deal with two of those soul-crushing rambles.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 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

There he coined the term physical education and took his appalled young charges on brisk rambles of thirty-five or forty miles over the neighboring mountains.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Within the monument, we rambled along Soda Lake Road, admiring windmills, an old ranch house now reserved for bats, and a few hills dotted with lazy cows.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

For once, nobody rambled, nobody went off script, and almost everyone remembered to thank their mum.

From BBC Feb. 28, 2026

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

For a while he rambled with bent head along the streets.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

But a New York judge flatly rejected the appeal, describing it as "lengthy and rambling".

From BBC Aug. 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

After Debbie divorced, she sent a rambling letter to Nancy, saying how guilty she felt.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

The California Military Academy spent a spectacular few of its early years, circa 1906, on the water at Santa Monica, leasing out the rambling Victorian pile that had once been the Arcadia Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

Instead, she slid her fingers back and forth across the rough grain of the table’s underside, letting her skin drag over the unfinished wood, working out a kind of counterpoint to Henry’s rambling.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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