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    Use "roll" in a sentence

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    rolled


    rolling


    rolls


    1. Dad lets the bread roll from his fingers onto a pile of clothes


    2. ” He popped the sushi roll into his mouth


    3. “I knew this kid that threw a cat at a ceiling once,” Becca shrugged, placing a piece of ginger delicately on top of her salmon roll


    4. I roll to my feet and grab the sword lodged in the coffee table


    5. He was on a roll and then that little brat, and that woman…


    6. She tried to roll back up to a standing position, but he kicked her before she could move


    7. She didn't have a water skin on her, they were both tied to the saddle, along with her camp roll that held her warm clothing for the dark


    8. He returns very quickly with a handful of kitchen roll and proceeds to dab at my leg


    9. The 'starship' that came down in the Yakhan, you could roll this thing onto the freight elevator that comes down out of its cargo bay, and that isn't really the starship


    10. Enoch stands by the table staring at the balls as they slowly roll to a stop

    11. around four and went to the beach just to listen to the timeless roll of the waves


    12. "Ready to roll," he said


    13. for the hooch to roll off the


    14. While sat on the loo, I had dozed gently before the realisation that the loo roll only had two sheets of paper left stirred what was left of my brain into action


    15. The wind was strong enough to whip fine sand up high enough to choke them, but not enough to hide the high clouds that would roll on beyond this desert to the hills beyond the lake


    16. Inside, the goon was seated, resting his fat elbows on the counter and preparing to sink his teeth into a sloppy breakfast roll


    17. Then his eyes roll up into his head and - splat! - he falls forward, face in his dinner plate


    18. John was not going to roll over and let Diotrephes keep imposing his will on the


    19. Every time it came round to my turn to shake and roll, with every attempt that I made to scale the ladders of hope by constructing impossible plans for my salvation, with every throw of the dice, I just slipped down another snake


    20. A roll of toilet paper, soft and pink and quilted

    21. She takes one look at me, glances round the room and goes quickly over to where the kitchen roll stands and tears off a chunk, bringing it back to the table and handing it to me


    22. Once again I moved through a shadow world of stairs and blind corridors before being deposited, still blindfolded and ignorant, on another mattress roll, this one, like the others, a dirty cream colour


    23. “I can walk (or crawl, or roll) with what life has given me


    24. Son woke just in time to roll out of the way as a sword swung past his


    25. Vyinga called her roll, everyone in their usual places


    26. stood watching the whole scene roll by in front of his


    27. meander amid kin-calls on the roll of shadow


    28. The animal is not flexible enough to get you off, and not smart enough to roll over to do so


    29. waits for the surge and roll of waves to push her up


    30. Lips move on the silver screen, eyes roll,

    31. Mists roll off of the sea here like the thick, heavy gasses


    32. hills roll away in manoeuvres, lines that merge


    33. “Roll up, roll up” shouted Cosmicblasto


    34. with wind in your hair and sand kicking up, the waves on a roll,


    35. “Roll up, roll up and see the show, be astounded by


    36. A rumble of thunder begins to roll


    37. You could keep it in your pocket during the day and at night slip it into the toe of an old stocking and draw the other end over your hand so that the potato does not roll away from you while you sleep


    38. house martins, hills roll away in manoeuvres,


    39. They were on a rope-seat, a type of hammock, that had a tendency to roll them together


    40. Before my eyes I saw it roll and swoop and buck and cow-kick at the onslaught of the storm as if the tempest gathered vitality from the sea itself

    41. roll down their shutters and the boulevards started to echo to the


    42. could do to roll over and die as quickly as he possibly could


    43. However, Jane is on a roll now and refuses to let a little thing like my shock at finding a pair of knickers can cost £40 stand in the way of finding me something pretty


    44. There was a ghostly drum roll playing from the back of the


    45. They began to roll a huge stone away from the entrance to a large cave


    46. release trapped emotions are designed to roll down the


    47. and out while you roll


    48. breathe in and out while you roll or slide the magnet


    49. For the whole of the next week Tiffany was a rock and roll


    50. roll down the back, are easy to hold, and as they














































    1. When he heard the thunder get continuously louder, he rolled up the kitchen mat and braved the snow outside


    2. Nancy rolled her eyes as she had to hear about it again


    3. A trooper sits behind the wheel in each car with the windows rolled up and air conditioners running


    4. The waiter simply rolled his eyes and said, “Thank you very much


    5. Johnny rolled over and buried his head under the pillow


    6. Ava rolled her eyes up but got out a one-sided screen and looked at some code


    7. He watched from the breakfast room of the hotel as one large goon rolled up in front of the Cash for Gold and unlocked the shutters


    8. He was thick set, bald and shaved with several necks rolled up above his jacket collar


    9. Nine neatly rolled joints lined the container


    10. When it was dark inside he rolled up the left sleeve of his black t-shirt and clicked on the pen-light

    11. I watched as the crazy dream rolled on


    12. " Will rolled his eyes


    13. The big idiot rolled his eyes and then laughed


    14. " Jordo rolled his Bitzer over to put the upper layers of the planet’s atmo behind him


    15. She rolled onto her side and propped her head up on her hand, her black hair falling dishevelled across shoulders and curving round her breasts


    16. Well this time the dockmaster was mesmerized as Vatreel aimed the rack toward the shoremen's idle ones, then lifted the whole rack as they glided by and stepped with it, matching his walk along the deck to the drift of the river, til the whole row of bales rolled across and lay resting on their rack while the docksman's chins dropped and he walked half the edge of the deck


    17. Two masts had gone and four of the crew before we rolled over the first time


    18. She rolled up his other two pair of shorts and put them under the arch of his foot, then wrapped his foot much tighter with Desa's dress


    19. sound as they rolled over


    20. She stretched, arched her back and rolled over opening her eyes and smiling up at him

    21. Then he went for her, but she jumped him first; and they rolled down the hillside


    22. When it was light they rolled up the mats and their cabin was a resort on the river


    23. Proceed very slowly at this stage and remember at all times to keep your body rolled up into a ball with your knees well bent


    24. They rolled over, lay their heads on their pillows and both were snoring loudly within a minute


    25. Some time later mother and father rolled through the door in the middle of a heated argument about the pros and cons of holidays in the sun and gambling trips to Las Vegas


    26. My parent's car rolled onto the burial ground at about nine at night


    27. I met a lady carrying a plate of dolmades, the rolled up vine leaves like green tubes, and asked her the way, in my imperfect Greek, for Virgenia's


    28. Virgenia rolled out from the kitchen wiping her hands on her apron and squinting through her thick-lensed spectacles, 'It's our Alessandra come home all bright and happy


    29. Then he lost his footing and rolled down an embankment


    30. Abruptly, he gave the table such a thump the bottles rattled and one clattered and rolled onto the floor

    31. She saw him looking at her and she rolled her eyes and laughed


    32. She professed belief, but seldom acted on it and almost never talked of religion, often rolled her eyes when he did


    33. He rolled over onto his left side and looked into the gentle eye of a simple little daisy


    34. I rolled onto my stomach, allowing the water to wash and revive me, pulling myself forward over the pebbles like a lizard, sliding down into the water past the boulders, keeping as near to the bottom as I could and then turning, and looking skyward through sparkling shafts of sunlight beaming through my open fingers


    35. Lucy wept and wept throughout the ordeal, hanging onto her mother’s arm with feral strength as they dragged Alan’s torso out into the garden and rolled it into the pit that had been dug for the patio


    36. hobbled and rolled towards the safety of the crowds in the nearest


    37. She began to stir and rolled over, cuddling up next to him, her hand on his chest


    38. He rolled over pressing her to him, kissing her playfully


    39. She agreed, and we chatted while I rolled the magnet


    40. They rolled over, lay their heads

    41. A massive boulder on the inside was then rolled back across the entrance; one man climbed above it and pulled on a rope and a large black tarp unrolled, covering the entrance


    42. When they rolled back the boulder in the morning the men found the frozen body of an obviously pregnant Snotig, a large cat-like animal indigenous to the area


    43. lady really hard on the bottom so that she rolled headfirst right into


    44. Some time later mother and father rolled through the door in the


    45. Rayne was laughing so hard that tears rolled down her face, much to the pleasure of a captivated Tevid


    46. The ball rolled to Ish


    47. Tarak rolled over and stretched his large frame, sighing deeply


    48. Rayne stirred and rolled over snuggling up against him


    49. “Your women,” she countered, “this is Aura, and we are Ogatu!” With that she rolled off the bed


    50. Across the bridge at the Queen’s Hold, in one of the guest bedrooms, Alexei rolled over and woke up; Altera was already gone














































    1. "It was rolling on the ground somewhere I walked," Jorma said


    2. "I can't think of when I could have possibly been in a place where aluminum could have been rolling around loose


    3. Two thousand years of foot traffic had worn the floors to rolling hills, the glass in the windows had sagged and the marble plumbing fixtures were heavily eroded, though they were just replaced a few centuries ago


    4. When the plane started rolling down the driveway, it lit up underneath the wing like some kind of science fiction hovercraft


    5. Finally, Manuel came with his big rolling tray of tools to check on Baggy's condition


    6. Vagina turned her head back to look over the rolling hills of the Wickford Way


    7. Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling


    8. "It's just a rolling list entering a new entry down the list indexed by their priority count


    9. I decided to start the ball rolling


    10. I felt my feet becoming numb as the tape bit into my ankles, and slowly that numbness spread, rolling inexorably up my calves and into my thighs

    11. Through it all, as the jars and the jolts and the rolling corners sent jagged sparks circulating through my nerve endings, I groaned and tried to blot the world out by closing my eyes, by willing myself into coma


    12. We assumed at first that it was thunder, a spring storm rolling over the Cotswold Hills, perhaps, but then Menachem pointed down towards the road outside our building


    13. The sun was hanging low in the sky above the gently rolling surface of the sea, casting deep shadows on the grass


    14. Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling it across the heavens like thunder, looking at all those aspects of silence and darkness that reinforced the heavens as imagined by a responsible God


    15. Danton let out a low guttural growl and swept the head off its silver spike, sending it rolling blindly down the corridor


    16. Not only do all the bones in my body ache with the relentless dull pain of toothache, but I feel emotionally dead … rolling over with an audible groan, I bury my head in the pillow


    17. They do their best, with black bags and rolling jaw machines,


    18. The valley between this ridge and the next is wooded and deep; in the distance, I can see rolling hills, green for the most part although some of the trees are now showing autumn colours very clearly


    19. Despite anticipating that the sound of the water flowing past my head as I sleep in the cabin bed allotted to me would awaken memories that would prevent me sleeping, I do manage to drop off and woke to find myself in a different world; the flat lowlands have been replaced by rolling hills which, even though the plants and animals show the ubiquitous signs of malaise I have seen elsewhere, is lovely to behold


    20. Cosmicblasto put it in the corner, without rolling it up

    21. noise whilst rolling over the gravel on the tracks


    22. cascades, turning, rolling, the simplest,


    23. ’ He laughed, rolling over so he can stand up


    24. the air a thick rolling mist of static and vision blurred,


    25. We'd been picnicking at the local beach, watching the surfers and water-skiers riding the long, rolling waves, waiting for their perfect moment, and uncle was applauding their commitment and patience


    26. I went under, flailing about and rolling over and over


    27. She starts the ball rolling with a binary word,


    28. As his wife surfaced from beneath the rolling waves of slumber she groaned and mumbled, feeling for a tumbler full of bathroom tap water that should have been on her bedside table


    29. ’ He replied, taking it from me, rolling it up neatly and stowing it on the gg


    30. When they stopped rolling she was on top of him

    31. Hand-embroidered bed covers, chair covers, head covers, shirts and blouses of the national costume all decorated the yard, set off by a backdrop of rolling sea on one side and rolling hills on the other


    32. 'They shoot into the sky and thank the stars they have such good company,' he was a boy with his sister again, happy to be rocking and rolling to the rhythm of the choppy seas


    33. They were trying hard to be respectful in the chapel but all at once got to their feet and dashed outside, unable to contain their laughter any longer, groaning and rolling on the ground as though they were going to die whilst I patiently waited for their game to end


    34. Some miles to the south of London, nestling in the gently rolling, green swathed hills of the Surrey Downs, there stands an old country manor house, which boasts the thickest of stone walls, a small but nonetheless impressive little tower and ornate white painted wooden gables


    35. All in all, and after a few questions about prospects and family lineage, they were so pleased that they had found such a suitable young man for their grand-daughter that it was agreed the marriage should take place there and then with the cameras still rolling


    36. 'Shut up,' Ish hissed as the ball came rolling back to him


    37. Limbs dangled over one another or lay fastened around kids, twitching and rolling through some wandering dreams


    38. Rolling them in his hand, he left the ground


    39. I'm only bringing this up because the herb is, I guess, always mixed with tobacco before rolling


    40. “Yes, of course,” she said rolling up her sleeve, seemingly in deep thought

    41. tallying the last few votes, though the secular party had already started rolling


    42. tears came rolling out of her eyes


    43. As his wife surfaced from beneath the rolling waves of slumber


    44. She noted rolling hills of violet flowers, and dark green forested areas miles ahead


    45. rolling, green swathed hills of the Surrey Downs, there stands an


    46. should take place there and then with the cameras still rolling


    47. She was grinning and rolling her hips, working her way as far onto him as she could


    48. “They said nothing at all about your jealousy? I saw the rolling eyes


    49. The wheel arm rolling along, the wheel man half asleep watching it


    50. ‘How was your journey?’ I asked, desperately trying to get the conversational ball rolling – what the hell do you say to the parents of the man you are moving in with? I can hardly go into a CV of my history, family background and character














































    1. He crumples them up and rolls them back off the bed


    2. They fell in behind a barge carrying hundreds of rolls of raw cloth bound on a day-long journey to the fashion shops of the south side


    3. John rolls down his window and the trooper waddles over


    4. Dacreea is the cook on Morningdays and she usually does a variety of zhlindu rolls and a pot of a pretty good diddle


    5. They all grabbed rolls because they could eat them while under way


    6. toilet rolls should be, they skipped and floated on the very fabric of the universe


    7. The two guards who had been on washing-up duty came over, this time with rolls of duct tape in their hands


    8. We talked for hours, breaking off only to slip our hoods on and sit quietly on our mattress rolls when the guards brought in the evening meal


    9. The rolls were just coming off when I went by there, I had several of the heart in parched kalic jelly, the wrap so perfectly toasted, and in a lowland wild thesh


    10. He rolls in leaf mould, clothing himself,

    11. that twinkle in bar light on rolls of fat,


    12. carry rolls of dirt grimed cloth,


    13. who carry rolls of paper, buckets and brushes


    14. and as the dice rolls down the table,


    15. into the crawling mist that rolls over the land,


    16. So they were able to have real baked thesh rolls stuffed with lon and pkatta


    17. Both cooks in the village set up at his fireplace, one with a hearty thonga stew and the other with some crispy, tasty, spicy, thin rolls with lots of lorv and kalic seasoning the thonga strips


    18. and there, in the gentle rolls of surf,


    19. This is one of the main crops that stuffs the rolls people eat in Zhlindu


    20. He was so distracted by that he couldn't think of anything better than a little bread-crock of crossed stew and some rolls of fresh lon and braised red-tail

    21. Harvey was still prattling about zhlindu thesh rolls when the captain and senior officers re-appeared


    22. have I got any bread rolls lying around in here? I tend to buy the half-baked rolls and keep them in the freezer for precisely this sort of moment


    23. The girl rolls onto her back and pulls the blanket up under her chin


    24. Monday rolls into darkness and Tuesday dawns


    25. Billy rolls his eyes and gives in


    26. His name sounds foreign as she rolls it around her tongue, although he speaks without any accent


    27. He stretches his neck, left and right, then rolls his head round in a clockwise circle


    28. Alex lets out the clutch and the car rolls forward gently, edging up to the bumper of the Sierra


    29. The men’s bathroom raised a couple of less than complimentary remarks from the secretary of the association … mostly on the subject of empty toilet rolls and how no man she had ever met could understand the mechanism which required the replacement of an empty toilet roll with a fresh one


    30. Carol rolls over to face Dave

    31. She rolls over and folds herself into the man's back, spooning, and with her left hand she reaches over his hips and glides her hand across his abdomen towards his morning erection


    32. ‘If that is the criteria, then surely a Rolls Royce would be more appropriate


    33. There was enough thesh and vedn flour for a good batch of dusted rolls in the open bags and all that fresh rinko to stuff them with


    34. Desa wrapped the rolls in wet chassa leaves and put them in the coals under a bowl to bake


    35. While they ate Desa couldn’t help noticing that Alan was acting like he’d never had thesh rolls before


    36. She should have made him at least two rolls, instead she gave him a bunch of gloribards to see if those would stick his teeth together a little


    37. “Here's a note,” said George and caught at a paper which had separated itself from the rolls of plans and drifted toward the floor


    38. Miss Spelman, as the de facto director and producer due to her own training with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the bard's own hometown, solicited ideas from their rolls at their next scheduled meeting in the new School House


    39. "Come on, we've got to get the rolls from the house


    40. Chiggeed had asked them to pass the word that the theirops was off the coals and the rolls were in the vats

    41. “I noticed that they have different engines depending on the model: Rolls Royce or GE


    42. Also on the table were the first batch of sizzling rolls stuffed with every condiment that could be dredged from the interior of a theirops


    43. “They don’t know anything but their sensors will send information to Rolls Royce!”


    44. Yeah there's kvarits and wevn and abandoned areas, but there's also you and Mingalle and Bandor, yaag and thesh rolls and the great halls under the hill


    45. Alan was just stepping down from the upper plaz, two rolls in one hand and a bottle in the other


    46. The rolls would simmer in their sauce now for hours


    47. " He introduced his friend, and they talked while they ate a few more of the rolls and some kava-ka that Mingalle had put out, already peeled and seeded


    48. Plush, black rolls of fur covered her shoulders and neck, a striking contrast to her lips which were painted dark red


    49. A couple thesh rolls or a bowl of a good Dwarven stew off a cook in a khume is my usual lunch


    50. When the meander of the river came close to this road, buildings might get to twenty stories, bump 'n rolls like she had seen on the Lhar














































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    Synonyms for "roll"

    bowl roll cast scroll roster roller rolling wave drum roll paradiddle peal pealing rolling axial motion axial rotation bun bankroll coil curl curlicue gyre ringlet whorl roll up seethe roll out twine wind wrap turn over revolve drift ramble range roam rove stray swan tramp vagabond wander wheel flap undulate wave hustle pluck cylinder barrel spindle drum document list inventory catalogue register turn rotate spin whirl gyrate billow surge flow sway rock swing envelop cover enfold

    "roll" definitions

    rotary motion of an object around its own axis


    a list of names


    a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore


    photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light


    a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)


    a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.)


    small rounded bread either plain or sweet


    a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)


    the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously


    a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)


    anything rolled up in cylindrical form


    the act of throwing dice


    walking with a swaying gait


    a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude


    the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)


    move by turning over or rotating


    move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle


    occur in soft rounded shapes


    flatten or spread with a roller


    emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound


    arrange or or coil around


    begin operating or running


    shape by rolling


    execute a roll, in tumbling


    sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity


    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion


    move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment


    move, rock, or sway from side to side


    cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis


    pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/


    boil vigorously


    take the shape of a roll or cylinder


    show certain properties when being rolled