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
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
She couldn’t ramble like Immie did, to figure herself out.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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
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
The bacteria are shed in the lizard’s feces and can end up on the animal’s skin and just about anywhere the bearded dragon rambles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Then a food truck rambles onto the grounds and dazed-looking teens hop out in bell-bottoms; tie-dye shirts; long, flowing dresses; and fringed ponchos.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
Our curiosity got the best of us, and we rambled onto the grounds to find an intimate wedding reception taking place in the courtyard below.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
The rest of the week went no better for Trump, who rambled and drifted during an event at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
I did not tire her by chattering, as young ladies often do, but listened while she rambled around in her large memory.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Saramago captures the rambling reversals of Senhor José’s thoughts with an unconventional prose style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
During the war, he baffled international negotiators with rambling diatribes on Serbian history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
But a New York judge flatly rejected the appeal, describing it as "lengthy and rambling".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
“It was not possible for me to imagine a solution to the level of fragmentation, pain, and dysfunction I saw,” she writes, leaving readers without much justification for having followed her rambling, idiosyncratic quest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He ripped at the shutters, but the old Plymouth, one of its front tires fenderless and exposed as if it were a stock car, was rambling to life.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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