How to Use ramble in a Sentence

ramble

1 of 2 verb
  • He's funny, but he tends to ramble.
  • She rambled for several minutes before introducing the main speaker.
  • Don’t be the person who rambles and runs over the slot.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Three steps are easy to remember and can help get your points across without rambling.
    — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
  • They're meant to be drunk over the course of the entire day at long, rambling college parties.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Still, this isn’t a slow, daydreamy ramble through remote regions.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Kachina rambles for 5 miles but the most vibrant color is found on the first half of the hike.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The story takes a while to get going, then rambles a lot once the premise has been established.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • So, how does all my rambling relate to Culture—and its ugliest truth?
    — Todd Nordstrom, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • What on Earth was Gabriel rambling on about before, anyway?
    — Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • His speech was unhinged, often not founded in fact, and rambled badly.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Zac would throw his arms in the air and ramble on and on and on about how his father had worked the mill beside people of color.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Byrne’s comments on the issue have been rambling, and at times incoherent and vague.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 23 Aug. 2019
  • This little book samples his rambling chats with friend Traubel in the last years of Whitman’s life.
    — John Timpane, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • The pod is not a rambling conversation, and the sound quality and editing is good.
    — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
  • After a quick dip, the bear exited the water, rambled over a wall and climbed up a tree near the rear of the house, police said.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • The whole Western world waned to sell the farm and ramble down Route 66 in one of these machines.
    — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Then, my girls and I moved into a rambling old rental a few towns away, another beautiful house that wasn’t ours.
    — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The eight wolves that are not in packs rambled much farther and were less likely to stay in a specific area, Cassidy said.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
  • Trump, for his part, sent a defiant, rambling six-page letter to the House on Tuesday night.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The foliage of tomato plants supported by stakes or trellises dries much faster than plants allowed to ramble over the ground.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
  • In the rambling hillside yard, Bullard added an outdoor kitchen, fire pit, fountain, and lounging areas.
    — Stephen Pappas, ELLE Decor, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The front, which opens onto the street is a two-story, rambling structure with a serene and laid-back charm that is all about mature trees and a wrap-around front porch.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
  • Since then, Pulliam has sent the AG more than a dozen rambling complaints, including three last month.
    — Brian Chasnoff, ExpressNews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Georgia Tech needed no big rally to ramble into the Sweet 16.
    — Jim Vertuno, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Just minutes from Cannes, the rambling Château de la Napoule stretches along a Mediterranean beach.
    — Laura Van Straaten, Town & Country, 6 June 2019
  • That’s when Amendola’s face, combined with some unhinged rambling, got the message across that something big just happened.
    — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The residence rambles over more than 14,500 square feet with 13 bedrooms and nine and a half baths.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Pay close attention while the host rambles on about remodelling the guest room and her new Tempur-Pedic mattress.
    — Emily Menez, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In her 10-minute rambling speech, Lori claimed that Tylee suffered from pancreatitis and was in pain most of her life.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023

ramble

2 of 2 noun
  • We went for a ramble along the beach.
  • We had to listen to another one of his long rambles about politics and religion.
  • He encountered many interesting people in his rambles in the country.
  • The first chapter is a 100-page ramble.
  • But there is still time for an autumn ramble through the city.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Judd Apatow, at least, is a man who knows a self-aware ramble.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • From the Mescal Trailhead, the trail rambles through brushy high-desert scrub.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • My morning rambles cross mossy forest floors strewn with spring ephemerals.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Airbnb made my three-week ramble through Spain easier and better.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
  • This shady ramble follows a beautiful stream to a gushing spring.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The oldest guest to make the ramble was 90 years old and the youngest, carted in a stroller, had not yet had their first birthday.
    — New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Instead of a straight shot out and back across the country, maybe this is the year for a circular ramble in a state with less expensive gas.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
  • There are dolmens hidden out here in the jagged ramble and sobbing wind, ancient monoliths built by pre-historic farmers.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Kennedy, perched atop the drum riser of Brent Fitz, led the crowd, who waved their arms over their heads as the song’s ending unfurled in a jam-like ramble.
    — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • That included a 45-yard jaunt that set up the third Irish touchdown and a 53-yard ramble in the fourth quarter.
    — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 10 Nov. 2019
  • At the White House, the unwell billionaire rambles, spews insults at those who refuse to kowtow and dozes off in meetings.
    — Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • If the streaming revolution is going to reduce every show to a plotless ramble through an alternate world, why not this one?
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • It was followed by a secret and emotional ramble from Khrushchev about the spectre of nuclear holocaust.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2022
  • British Car Day Fancy a ramble through ye olde park whilst perusing the finest motor cars from dear old Blighty?
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2018
  • Our splendid ramble traces the southern edge of Ennerdale Water, the park’s most westerly lake—and one of its most remote.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Adventurous styling makes a ramble in the Pyrenees into an expedition through avant-garde pieces that go from runway to rugged.
    — WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The shaded wrap-around porch is a lovely spot to sip a hazy IPA and take a brisket break on a summer ramble down Highway 1.
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 29 July 2019
  • The dangerous joy, the glee and courage, the humor in the face of fate, the wild ramble of a life driven towards the artistic heavens and the daily balm of self obliteration.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2026
  • What if Central Park, instead of a romantic landscape of rolling lawns, woods and rambles, were as formal as Versailles?
    — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • As the agent rambles, the cameras onstage freeze Tullock’s face at unflattering moments, and the screens behind her display a series of grotesques.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Cats are a perfectly adequate MacGuffin for this pleasant ramble through what philosophy can and can’t help us with.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Images of your work setup without an inspiring message, generic rambles that don't connect, and anything that doesn't portray you in the best light wastes everyone's time.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Yet there’s a way in which their girl-group identity seems reimagined for the twenty-first century—freed from the confines of tight matching dresses and set loose for a casual ramble through the city.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The resulting rambles through town, aboard motorcycle taxis on which all three pile up along with the drivers, become, for Folarin, trips through his own memories.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Streamed from London’s Southwark Playhouse, the play set Potter on a rapid ramble through a troubled mind, barbed with resentment.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021

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