What's the difference between amble and slowly?

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.

Slowly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (3) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
  • (4) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
  • (5) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
  • (6) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
  • (7) To gain more information about sources of activator Ca2+ involved in the contraction of rat and guinea-pig aorta evoked by angiotensin II and their sensitivity to Ca2+ entry blockers, measurement of slowly exchanging 45Ca2+ was established.
  • (8) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
  • (9) In contrast, T lymphocyte cytolytic activity developed more slowly in regressing sarcomas and attained peak levels coincident with the beginning of tumor regression.
  • (10) Testosterone was low until 68 weeks after which concentrations rose slowly to 80 weeks and increased rapidly to a plateau at 92 weeks.
  • (11) Also blacks differ from whites in 2 ways that could be relevant for their increased prevalence of hypertension: they excrete sodium loads more slowly and have a markedly lower urinary kallikrein.
  • (12) Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a hereditary metabolic disorder characterized by slowly progressive mental deterioration from infancy, urinary excretion of large amounts of aspartylglycosamine, and decreased activity of the lysosomal enzyme aspartylglcosamine amido hydrolase in various body tissues and fluids.
  • (13) This decrease was due in part to formation of slowly dissociating cell surface receptor [3H]BK binding and in part to internalization of the receptor-bound [3H]BK.
  • (14) Strains lacking the A form of eIF-5A, constructed by disruption of TIF51A with LEU2, grow slowly, whereas strains lacking the B form, in which HIS3 was used to disrupt TIF51B, show no growth rate phenotype.
  • (15) Although differences were noted between species, the absolute rates of absorption measured indicate that the phthalate esters are slowly absorbed through both human and rat skin.
  • (16) In some patients stimulation can reduce rigidity and coactivation of muscles immediately or slowly over days or months.
  • (17) The kinetics of association of the radioligand suggested the presence of a rapidly associating, reversible binding site, and a slowly associating, apparently irreversible one.
  • (18) A fat emulsion when injected into tissue is scarcely taken up by the blood vascular system but is retained within the tissue over a relatively extended period, and is distributed slowly into the surrounding tissues and to the regional lymph nodes.
  • (19) It is suggested that an enzyme-inhibitor complex of an acyl-enzyme type is formed that is slowly hydrolysed, with water as the final acceptor, leaving an intact enzyme and an inactive form of the inhibitor.
  • (20) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.