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Example sentences for "rambling"

Lexicographically close words:
ramble; rambled; rambler; ramblers; rambles; ramblings; ramekin; ramekins; rami; ramie
  1. The Gables was a roomy and rambling place lying back a considerable distance from the road.

  2. Very unsteadily I followed him down the stairs and through the rambling old house out into the stone-paved courtyard.

  3. He stared at me, and his eyes looked very bright in the dusk, for a sort of red glow from the sunset touched them; but he spoke no word, merely taking my arm and leading me off on a rambling walk around and about the house.

  4. And soon to the Gordon Arms, a plain rambling cement structure, where Hogg and Scott met by appointment and took their last walk together.

  5. They followed the path for about a hundred yards, and then came in sight of a long, low, rambling cabin, the home in years gone by of some lumbermen.

  6. Shadow, and then related a somewhat rambling tale of a man who had changed his name and, later on, lost some property because of it.

  7. Though the evening was damp and gloomy, a great many people were rambling about, and a long line of carriages parading.

  8. I like this odd town of Venice, and find every day some new amusement in rambling about its innumerable canals and alleys.

  9. A brisker flow of spirits than I had for many a day experienced, animated me with a desire of rambling about the shore of Baii, and creeping into caverns and subterraneous chambers.

  10. We but too soon left the smooth herbage behind, and passed about an hour in rambling down the mountain pelted by the showers, from which we took shelter under the limes at Moneti.

  11. You will be rambling in sheltered alleys, whilst winds and currents drive me furiously along craggy shores, under the scowl of a tempestuous sky.

  12. Much of the narrative, rambling and disconnected, with which he prefaced this story of the day, was vaguely familiar to her.

  13. Its centre is a great plaza, a rambling square of grass, one side of which is occupied by the church and monastery.

  14. This loitering page was one morning rambling about the groves of the Generalife, which overlook the grounds of the Alhambra.

  15. There was no telling what wild rambling statements her grandfather might have poured into the ears of Aubrey's father.

  16. She was accustomed to Weevil's eccentric language, his contradictions gave her no suspicions; she swallowed the rambling story whole and wanted more.

  17. And being rambling and old-fashioned, it appeared to a stranger larger than it really was.

  18. The Tower House, as I have said, was rambling and old-fashioned.

  19. And I dubbed myself a young gentleman of a sufficient fortune and an idle, curious habit of mind, rambling the country at my own charges, in quest of health, information, and merry adventures.

  20. Nay, he has met her rambling through the adjoining thickets, with the son of an old friend, whose romance is in the past, and he has blessed them both.

  21. It was an old-fashioned, homely place, a rambling farmhouse up to which the village had climbed.

  22. He makes them rambling speeches at which my brother and his friends laugh, but which the people applaud.

  23. We have been rambling up hill and down dale.

  24. But I, that was born to be my own destroyer, could no more resist the offer, than I could restrain my first rambling designs, when my father's good counsel was lost upon me.

  25. I now had enough of rambling to sea for some time, and had enough to do for many days, to sit still, and reflect upon the danger I had been in.

  26. Defn: A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.

  27. Defn: One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

  28. A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.

  29. Defn: A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion.

  30. More than one rambling party of gipsies passed their hiding-place.

  31. Down below a flowery meadow; Joined the burnies rambling line, Here it was that Howe the widow That same day set up her sign.

  32. Next morning at early dawn we are rambling in and around the pretty village of Lasswade, which lies so sweetly on the left bank of the North Esk.

  33. Lizzie laid down the powder-puff she was using and bent lower over the rambling speaker.

  34. They reached the steps of the large, rather rambling one-story farm-house.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rambling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.