What's the difference between amble and prance?

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.

Prance


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
  • (v. i.) To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner.
  • (v. i.) To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
  • (2) Other signs included a short prancing gait with head tucked in a similar manner to that of a show pony.
  • (3) [Would] there by any objections to the Gay Gordons performing and prancing on that occasion too?” the MoD asked.
  • (4) In dogs delta 9-THC but not delta 9-11-THC produced classical cannabimimetic signs including static ataxia, hyperreflexia, prancing and tail-tuck.
  • (5) He served as ringmaster, prancing on and off stage as fellow presidential candidates, combat veterans and YouTube celebrities all took turns paying tribute both to Trump and those who have served in the US armed forces.
  • (6) You need to know a bit of marine mammal psychology: if you chase after them, they’ll treat you with disdain, but if you figure out what makes them tick, they’ll dance with you under water for hours, pirouetting and prancing around you in an intoxicating aquatic ballet.
  • (7) Xan Brooks Dance on your own like everybody's watching Lost River had Ben Mendelsohn frugging in pursuit of a frigging, In the Name of My Daughter played "African drums" and let star Adèle Haenel engage in some tribal two-step, and The Search saw a young Chechen refugee forget the murder of his parents by prancing around to the Bee Gees.
  • (8) He prances around his estate, abusing his slaves as though they're characters in a sadistic game of The Sims.
  • (9) The scientists include Sir Ghillean Prance, former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Thomas Lovejoy, chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank; Prof Omar R. Masera, director of the bioenergy lab at the National University of Mexico and Nobel laureate on behalf of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others from Oxford, Stanford and Imperial College, London.
  • (10) A drummer called Martin Joyce and a bassist, whose name I couldn't remember, dragged my naked body through the undergrowth to a campfire where lawyers and record executives pranced, danced and tranced to a third rate David Bowie soundtrack.
  • (11) A petition set up by the group has more than 1,000 signatures , including Sir Ghillean Prance, former head of the world-renowned Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
  • (12) Well, legendary German goalkeeper Sepp Maier clearly does now, as Timo Staudacher recalls: "On May 15 1976, during the Bundesliga match between Bayern Munich and VfL Bochum, a duck landed close to Maier's goal and started prancing about the six-yard box.
  • (13) Dario Fo has been prancing around dressed as a short, fat Silvio Berlusconi every night this week, in front of a roaring Roman audience.
  • (14) China must let those prancing provocateurs know how much of a price they pay when they deliberately rile us.
  • (15) Prince continues to prance around London like the Pied Piper, drawing faithfully queuing hordes this way and that.
  • (16) Getting out your phone to show your date a hilarious YouTube video of prancing pygmy goats (everyone does this, right?)
  • (17) Outside the Congress Center in Etobicoke, a western suburb of Toronto, a man with a demon mask pranced in the street holding a sign that said “Welcome to Harperland”.
  • (18) He has an onstage fool, Jacky, who dances and prances wearing Auschwitz-style pyjamas, complete with yellow star.
  • (19) Cue tears on the pitch and much laughter from the visiting fans, who had witnessed thousands of idiots prancing around, only to collectively fall to their knees as the news spread."
  • (20) The dancers fearlessly responded to the acute violence of the previous night’s events by prancing and voguing .