What's the difference between amble and leisurely?

Amble


Definition:

  • (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.

Leisurely


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
  • (adv.) In a leisurely manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reliability and concurrent validity of a simple questionnaire to assess leisure time physical activity has been investigated on 306 self-selected healthy adults of both sexes (163 M; 143 F).
  • (2) Symptom-limited maximal data were also collected and these are reported in relation to the energy requirements of some common leisure, occupational and domestic activities.
  • (3) In the 1970s a continuous increase of fat consumption and of cigarette consumption has been balanced by an increase of prevalence of controlled hypertensives, by an increase of leisure physical activity, by an increasing availability of coronary care units and consumption of beta-blockers.
  • (4) Also playing their part are increased mobility of populations, particularly moves from rural to urban areas, increased affluence, increased alcohol comsumption and leisure time together with greater personal freedom.
  • (5) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
  • (6) To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance running and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race.
  • (7) Howard Pridding, chief executive of the British Marine Federation, said: “The UK leisure marine industry has continued to grow and create new jobs, in spite of the challenging environment for exports caused by the weakness of the eurozone.
  • (8) Men in the lower employment grades were shorter, heavier for their height, had higher blood pressure, higher plasma glucose, smoked more, and reported less leisure-time physical activity than men in the higher grades.
  • (9) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
  • (10) Such contracts are widely used by retailers, restaurants, leisure companies and hotels.
  • (11) These factors explain around four-fifths of the overall pay gap between zero-hours workers and other employees.” Zero-hours contracts are widely used by retailers such as Sports Direct and JD Sports, restaurants, leisure companies and hotels.
  • (12) Certain behavioral risk factors were more dominant among the seamen than among the control group (smoking level, alcohol consumption and lack of leisure-time physical activity).
  • (13) A subgroup of 63 persons who have access to and do avail themselves of computers on a regular basis (as leisure-time activity) also answered the "Computer-Motive-Questionnaire".
  • (14) The results of the study disclosed the positive effects of physical activity at leisure on blood pressure status and this was independent on weight and age.
  • (15) Industries such as retail, leisure and travel are also expected to experience a slowdown in their recovery.
  • (16) Northern Ireland's minister of culture, arts and leisure, Nelson McCausland, supports a pilot taking place in the province and has suggested it could bring in £3m a year.
  • (17) The weekly titles will all be receiving new layout and design with a central section of common pages for the weeklies, drawn from the MEN's leisure and entertainment content.
  • (18) Properties in Garford Road, Rhyl, have been flooded and residents evacuated to Rhyl Leisure Centre where a rest centre has been set up by Denbighshire County Council.
  • (19) Quantitatively, the most important risk factors for total mortality were low physical activity during leisure time, tobacco smoking and elevated blood pressure.
  • (20) Physical strain may also have prophylactic effects, as physical leisure activity and muscular strength are negatively associated with the risk of low back pain.