(v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
(v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
(v. i.) To extend or grow at random.
(n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
(n.) A bed of shale over the seam.
Example Sentences:
(1) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
(2) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
(3) There is also Mario Draghi at the ECB, rambling on about quantitative easing , a policy that Berlin detests.
(4) His statements to the police were rambling and often incoherent.
(5) Millions of people are coming out to vote … People that have never voted before.” In a rambling speech, Trump also said he was “disgusted” with companies that are leaving the US, called for better care for veterans and insisted that Isis would be destroyed, although he referred to the San Bernardino attacks as having happened in “Los Angeles” before correcting himself.
(6) After eight hours of rallying, Kuti was dismissive of accepting anything short of a full governmental U-turn as he settled down to a spliff in his home, a rambling two-storey affair down a potholed road.
(7) This goal was actually obscured by the tangled web of Prince's rambling 1906 book and his other publications on the case.
(8) But he'd been doing a bit of holiday cover for daytime DJs, and he has a tendency to, as he puts it, "ramble on": he recently treated the nation to a nine-minute oration on the shortcomings of Madonna's gig at Hyde Park.
(9) The caricature of the older person as slow, rambling and confused is a familiar stereotype, reinforced by a media that often focuses on perceived age-related failings in public figures such as Ronald Reagan, Menzies Campbell and, more recently, Rupert Murdoch.
(10) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
(11) The oft-criticised Active People survey will be replaced with a new measurement tool called Active Lives that will also measure other forms of activity such as cycling to work, dance and rambling as well as activity among children from the age of five for the first time.
(12) Fun.” In a 20-minute speech, Palin praised Trump and expressed her desire to “Make America Great Again”, using the opportunity to go on a rambling and confused attack on both parties.
(13) I am happy to ramble on about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, but veggie dogs are some real bullshit “But Madeleine,” you say, “hot dogs are disgusting!
(14) Donald Trump’s mad hatter ramblings are outside the conservative reform movement and we will continue onward to deny him the nomination.” Kasich did not compete in Indiana as a result of a pact with Cruz and has so far only won his home state of Ohio.
(15) He took us on a long-distance ramble through his landmark priorities.
(16) During the summer there are regular guided rambles around the traditional Highland estate (a mix of farmed croft land, wood and moorland) and from Plockton to Kyle of Lochalsh, but it's worth keeping an eye out for special events and themed walks throughout the year.
(17) A Trump spokesperson emphasized to the Guardian that the Republican frontrunner’s answer was solely in response to the “training camps”, which is a common far rightwing conspiracy theory and not the questioner’s rambling statement before that.
(18) In answers that ranged from terse monosyllables to rambling monologues, Cayne said he wished the Securities and Exchange Commission had looked into the way rumours about Bear were spread: "Regardless of whether there was a conspiracy or not, the bottom line is the firm came under attack."
(19) I loved the short ramble around, and then the perfect recipe within.
(20) The steady feed of rambling selfie videos have prompted widespread mockery and scorn and in some cases have clearly further distracted from the plight of Harney County ranchers whom the militia claim to be backing.
Rambler
Definition:
(n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inner London branch of the Ramblers has also spoken out against the scheme.
(2) The cost of adding a strip of paving or grass on one side would be small but of great benefit both to residents and visiting ramblers.
(3) In 2005, it produced the Exohiker, a bionic walking aid that allows ramblers to trek with heavier loads.
(4) The so-called "naked rambler", Stephen Gough, will spend at least another three months in prison after a judge ruled that he will stand trial in January accused of walking around in public unclothed.
(5) The number of ramblers who have climbed the mountain has boomed since the apocalypse prediction, from 10,000 in 2010 to 20,000 in 2011.
(6) Shit.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the bench in February 1992 as his Limerick team take on Cobh Ramblers.
(7) After far too long spent quizzing 20-something herberts, one of the most fascinating music interviews I ever did was with two elderly Louisianans, Luderin Darbone, 91, and accordionist 93 year-old Edwin Duhon , who formed their Cajun band The Hackberry Ramblers in 1932, and got their first and only Grammy nomination in 1997.
(8) Even in later years, the duke's disputes with ramblers, who used the paths near his home, did not bring him the sort of publicity most stately-home owners would have welcomed.
(9) Planes from America were said to have been fully booked for December with passengers who had only bought one-way tickets, hippy cults were claimed to have built bunkers beneath the village, and half-naked ramblers were said to be seen wandering up the mountain in procession, ringing bells.
(10) As a direct challenge to ownership as exclusivity, there was the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932, where thousands of ramblers trespassed on private moorland in the Peak District.
(11) He must also ensure that local walkers and visitors will still have unimpeded access to the dunes under Scotland's strict right to roam legislation - rules Trump was unaware of until he was questioned by the Ramblers Association at the planning inquiry.
(12) A letter signed by the Woodland Trust, the Ramblers Association, Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust, the Chilterns Conservation Board, Buckinghamshire county council and MP Cheryl Gillan will be handed to the prime minister on Thursday, asking him to directly intervene in this matter.
(13) Phil Marson, chair of Inner London Ramblers , warned that the impact of the bridge on internationally famous walking trails would be too much.
(14) The Naked Rambler has been arrested three days after he was released from prison.
(15) Most people might be layering up in order to maintain bodily warmth – but not the Naked Rambler.
(16) One Estonian rambler had taken refuge in Rennes-Le-Bain's thermal springs saying, "I went for one walk around Bugarach and was stopped by two TV crews asked if I'd prepared for the apocalypse."
(17) Hammond said ramblers in the Peak District would not be disturbed by bullet trains tearing through an area of outstanding natural beauty, with the Birmingham-to-Leeds line likely to pass between Derby and Nottingham, and to the east of one of Britain's most stunning national parks.
(18) Planned cuts to the Forestry Commission risk the credibility of the independent panel appointed to advise the government on the future of England's forests , the Ramblers charity warned today.
(19) But today Ramblers said the panel would have one hand tied behind its back if government cuts to the commission went ahead before the independent advisers had a chance to report on the organisation.
(20) A person's right to dress as they choose way can be overridden by secular law in certain circumstances – the Naked Rambler has been frequently jailed, and political uniforms were banned by the Public Order Act (1936) .