What's the difference between amble and waddle?

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.

Waddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
  • (v. t.) To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.
  • (2) Chris Waddle (Former Newcastle winger) Management's not like playing and Alan will find that out.
  • (3) By 15 years the patient demonstrated a noticeable progress of motor disorders: she was unable to stand up from the chair, experienced difficulties in walking along the ward, and had a waddle gait.
  • (4) The patient presented with all the signs typical of the disease: severe rhizomelic dwarfism discovered during the second year of life, relatively normal height of trunk, short and massive hands and feet, waddling gait, gross epiphyseal [corrected] gland alterations and shallow vertebral bodies.
  • (5) He had a waddling gait with proximal hypotonia and paresis.
  • (6) Progressive diaphyseal dysplasia is characterized clinically by crippling leg pain, fatigue, headache, poor appetite, muscle weakness, and waddling gait.
  • (7) A 3-year-old boy was seen because of delayed developmental milestones, waddling gait, nonprogressive proximal muscle weakness and hyporeflexia.
  • (8) Cross the road and pick up some jam and biscuits in Le Comestible grocery and then waddle up to Kuzina fish restaurant for some oysters before settling down for a nightcap in Bar-Cave de la Monnaie on the next corner.
  • (9) It came to Waddle, 12 yards out on the left side of the box, and he smacked a brilliant first-time shot across Illgner and flush off the inside of the far post.
  • (10) England (5-3-2): Peter Shilton; Paul Parker, Terry Butcher, Mark Wright, Des Walker, Stuart Pearce; Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne , David Platt; Gary Lineker, Peter Beardsley.
  • (11) England 1–1 West Germany (3–4 pens) Waddle smashes his penalty inches over the bar – although such is its dramatic trajectory it soon looks like he’s missed by yards – and England’s dream is over.
  • (12) The patron saint of Walkers crisps scored a late equaliser, before Chris Waddle fired over the bar.
  • (13) The symptoms included a waddling gait and crepitus, pain, and tenderness over the symphysis pubis.
  • (14) A time when you couldn't bulk-buy cheap meat, produce crap food with it, and sell it every few yards along every high street, and outside every school, until loads of us are waddling about, obese and poorly, or malnourished, while others are swanning into Heston Blumenthal restaurants to eat "meat fruit" (c 1500) which is mandarin, chicken liver & foie gras parfait or "rice & flesh" (c 1390) which is made with saffron, calf tail & red wine.
  • (15) Mark Pougatch, presenter of 5 Live Sport, will present commentary of the matches from venues throughout South Africa with pundits including Graham Taylor, Robbie Savage, Chris Waddle, David Moyes and Danny Mills providing expert analysis.
  • (16) Both patients had a waddling gait, Gowers' maneuver in arising, terminal atrophies and pseudohypertrophies of some muscles, marked fasciculations, and fascicular tremor.
  • (17) 2.53pm GMT 68 min Waddle makes a lovely angled run behind the defence but Gascoigne overhits his through ball this much and that allows the last man Kohler to come across and concede a corner.
  • (18) For three years he had increasing pain in the lower back and hip with a noticeable waddling gait.
  • (19) Waddle’s free-kick from the right is headed clear by Klinsmann; it comes to Gascoigne, who controls the ball on his chest 22 yards from goal and then lashes the bouncing ball towards goal.
  • (20) He’s finished.’ “Kevin completely turned it round with Peter [Beardsley] and Chris Waddle.