(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.
Gait
Definition:
(n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way.
(n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(3) In the improved group, the families reported that the gait abnormality preceded the dementia in 11 patients and occurred at the same time in five.
(4) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
(5) On admission, neurological examination revealed staggering gait and the right cerebellar ataxia showing dysmetria and dysdiadochokinesis.
(6) In the gait initiation protocol, the amplitude and synchronization of the TA burst were directly correlated with velocity of movement, while the relative delay between soleus inhibition and TA activation was inversely correlated.
(7) No significant improvements or losses were found in a large series of gait parameters.
(8) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
(9) In this paper, the authors reported a case of 6-year-old girl who complained of the progressive gait disturbance.
(10) The data suggest that throughout most of the gait cycle and normal stair climbing, the passive structures contribute a small portion of the total moment, usually well less than 10%.
(11) The function of the prosthesis was assessed through clinical assessment and force plate gait analysis.
(12) A 52-year-old female was admitted with a chief complaint of progressive gait disturbance over the previous 16 months.
(13) Mean tandem gait speed improved 48% after training.
(14) Normal gait was associated with flexor contraction only when the foot was lifted and placed on the ground, whereas during ischaemic blockade flexor contraction continued during the interval between foot lifting and foot placement.The `freezing' or `blocking' gait in Parkinson's disease was found to be associated with coactivation of flexor and extensor muscles and this phenomenon occurred only in patients with features of flexion dystonia in the electromyographic recordings of their tonic stretch reflexes.
(15) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
(16) Also, the FES antigravity action obtained raises hopes for substantially improving FES induced reciprocal gait.
(17) Clinical gait analysis is a term that can be applied to numerous methods of evaluating a subject's walking pattern.
(18) Six children with low-level myelomeningocele underwent gait analysis.
(19) The functional recovery of the patients was assessed every week by using the Barthel Index and the Action Research Arm test, by registering walking velocity, and by performing gait analysis.
(20) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.