Example sentences for: ambling

How can you use “ambling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The cover cartoon, however, depicts her as a tourist ambling through Central Park, about to be mugged by a truncheon-wielding Rudolph Giuliani.

  • A motley crowd is hurrying by--workers in dungarees; a yogi with his followers; a noblewoman in purdah in palanquin; a group of nautch girls, attractive in their aniline-dyed dresses and bright bandanas, their bangles jingling and their long, shampooed hair streaming in the breeze; a sepoy all smart in khaki on his horse, his jodhpurs trim and neat; a scholarly pundit; a mahout on his elephant, ambling like a juggernaut.

  • But life along the river is also fascinating: washerwomen squatting on the shore, water buffalo ambling down for a dip, the improvised ferryboats, and the captive cormorant birds, their necks ringed to prevent them from swallowing all their catch, waiting for orders to go fishing from bamboo rafts.


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