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Meanings of rambling in English
(Of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.
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Usage of rambling in English
1
Remember, Jodie Foster only came out in a rambling speech last year.
2
Hilda remained listening in the lobby to the interminable and rambling instruction.
3
His poor broken brain was rambling in the ways of the past.
4
There was something sinister in the unfriendly shadow of the rambling house.
5
She states that in general her mind is both romantic and rambling.
6
The men are allowed too much liberty in rambling over the country.
7
That was the name the man spoke once in his rambling talk.
8
Moog, on the other hand, consists largely of long, occasionally rambling interviews.
9
Now, on the second floor the rooms were the most rambling conceivable.
10
All this in a vague, rambling way, in a slightly foreign accent.
11
A rambling and ill-informed discussion of Bolshevism arose in his shop to-night.
12
I thought as much, rambling in the woods, picking and eating whortleberries.
13
It had a rambling, comfortable house, and miles of land around it.
14
The story was extracted piecemeal, and was given in rambling, evasive fashion.
15
He began to talk to himself in a rambling sort of way.
16
After a rambling statement, he announced that he would boycott further proceedings.
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Frequent collocations
Rambling through the time
Rambling across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common