(v. i.) To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.
(v. i.) To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.
(n.) A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side.
(n.) A movement like the amble of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(2) For the many students who amble past it every day, it’s easily missed; placed rather innocuously next to the bridge that joins Scholar’s Piece to the rest of the college.
(3) So as Dame Quentin and the soon to be Sir Peter amble off, who is in for a gong at our next round of knighthoods?
(4) Ambling along Long Beach, south of Tofino, exploring treasures in tidal pools can easily absorb days.
(5) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
(6) Neil Taylor ambled up the inside-left channel before hanging over a cross for Bony to attack.
(7) The tourists ambling down Ledra Street in the hot midday sun are a welcome sight – and not just for crisis-hit Cyprus's shopkeepers.
(8) The ruined airport, which once offered flights north to Khartoum, is patrolled by blue-helmeted Rwandan soldiers, who amble across the pale orange ground carrying Kalashnikovs and grenade launchers.
(9) They could have played out a draw, ambled their way to a flat and mutually beneficial conclusion, but instead there were two goals after just three minutes.
(10) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
(11) People moved about much more slowly than they used to, the old self-important striding reduced to an amble, and all the glamour of government was gone – the good-looking women, the camera-crew scrums, the expensively dressed men.
(12) Let's amble amiably together, towards the announcement.
(13) This game had ambled along cagily for almost half an hour, Uruguay tigerishly setting about stifling any hint of Colombian ascendancy, when Abel Aguilar nodded the ball forward to Rodríguez, loitering with his back to goal in a pocket of space just outside the Uruguay penalty area.
(14) It ambled off down the path, perhaps intent on answering the call of nature.
(15) It is incredible the bombers did not have tickets but, regardless, they would not have got through the body searches at the gates.” Pavlovic and his wife, Ljiljana, had been selling scarves outside the arena prior to kick-off but, despite having tickets for the match, ambled down towards McDonald’s where they had parked in Impasse de la Cokerie, a drab cul de sac between characterless office blocks, to meet his cousin and her husband.
(16) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(17) Before long, they’ll amble over to a new, makeshift station assembled in recent weeks solely for refugee use.
(18) 3.35pm BST 35 mins: Debuchy ambles over to take a throw on the right, but stops for a little drink.
(19) Sometimes they wore shorts as they ambled across the beach.
(20) In The Apprentice they stride across the Millennium Bridge and in this show, they amble across a little ornamental crossing over a pretend stream.
Canter
Definition:
(n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
(n.) A rapid or easy passing over.
(v. i.) To move in a canter.
(v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
(n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.
(n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
Example Sentences:
(1) On another day, and possibly under another referee, Newcastle would have cantered to victory.
(2) Ernest Owusu, 23, sports engineering graduate, from London Ernest Owusu Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is my sixth Glastonbury, I love it here.
(3) It is not impossible this could all be done by the end of April, Leicester of the unbursting bubble not just champions, but champions at a hard-fought canter.
(4) If jet lag has you awake before the market is open for breakfast, you can potter up Fairfax to Canter's, a 24-hour deli that's been a Los Angeles Landmark since 1931.
(5) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Harper Adams University Runner-up : University of Sheffield Runner-up : University of Leicester Research impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Professor Mary Herbert and Dr Louise Hyslop from Newcastle University with their research impact award for pioneering IVF techniques.
(6) The bookmakers were proved right after Murray cantered to victory.
(7) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian A very unexpected Glasto anthem I didn't expect Katy Perry's Dark Horse to be the highlight of my Glastonbury, but somewhere in the middle of a very sweaty dance tent at some point in the early hours of Saturday morning, Jamie xx dropped it midway through an already mindblowing DJ set and the place exploded.
(8) Our fans have been through a lot but, hopefully, it will be a special day for them.” Back in December, down on the south coast, Boro ended Brighton’s unbeaten beginning to the season with an emphatic 3-0 victory and looked set to canter away with the title.
(9) Q ranged from 106 (rest) to 571 ml.min-1.kg-1 (canter), and stroke volume went from 1.34 (rest) to a maximum of 1.58 liters (walk).
(10) The young Spaniard, who has deputised at right-back with such aplomb this season, had the confidence to canter goalwards and plant the ball with his left foot into the far corner of the goal.
(11) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian GPs battle fatalism in neighbourhood with Britain's worst life expectancy Read more Two-thirds of GPs in the south of England said service had deteriorated in the last year – the highest proportion of any part of the country.
(12) Animals running at canter or gallop show major asymmetries between forelimb muscles on the first paw and on the lead paw sides.
(13) It is an assessment that continues to resonate, not just because of who it came from but also because it aptly encapsulates the swaggering brilliance of that Liverpool team, one which having crushed Forest went on to clinch the club's 17th league championship at a canter.
(14) Struggling against the harsh gusts of Lake Michigan, they soon become a blur of chapped noses and sharp tailoring breaking into a canter on Chicago’s Southside.
(15) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Royal Agricultural University Runner-up : University of Edinburgh Runner-up : University of Bristol students’ union Teaching excellence Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sean Mackney, Dr Sharon Edwards and Sam McCormack from Buckinghamshire New University with the award for teaching excellence and Paul Sinha.
(16) The basis of the survey was the inability of horses to take part in cantering exercise as a result of injury or disease.
(17) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian It is fair to say that Mary is more of an idealist than Arron.
(18) Canter's Background Interference Procedure was designed to increase the sensitivity of the Bender test to the discernment of organic brain damage.
(19) The rate of detection, confirmation, control and follow-up of hypertension in the Canteres Primary Care Center was evaluated two years after the beginning of the hypertension program from a sample of 1219 clinical records.
(20) This study correlated the Canter's Background Interference Procedure (BIP) scores of 141 adult epileptics with the five variables of age at onset of symptoms, etiology, type of symptoms, severity of generalized background dysrhythmia, and locus of lesion.