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get or gather together
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She rolled up a small fortune
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis -
show certain properties when being rolled
dried-out tobacco rolls badly
The carpet rolls unevenly -
close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle
she rolled up the window when it started to rain -
form a cylinder by rolling
roll up a banner -
form into a cylinder by rolling
Roll up the cloth -
make into a bundle
he bundled up his few possessions -
arrive in a vehicle:
He rolled up in a black Mercedes
How To Use roll up In A Sentence
- The city is the first thing I see from my bedroom window when I roll up the blinds of a morning, except on those days when it is shrouded in a thick blanket of damp mist.
- Roll up that tent every mornin case Forest Service snoops around.
- Our hero grew less fearful of a wreck And took a little stroll upon the deck. The Times Literary Supplement
- Pensioners can have a cup of tea and a biscuit for 5p and all the gardeners roll up to dunk their digestives in the afternoon sunshine.
- She quickly fastened her bootlaces and then proceeded to roll up her sleeping bag, dusting off dirt and debris as she did so.
- Good stuff, but unfortunately I still think Rand would just roll up and balefire everyone. I Can Haz Better Stories Pls?
- To browse the groups, click inside the Newsgroups window and scroll up and down using your arrow keys or mouse wheel.
- Roll up the ham slices like little cannelloni and spoon over some of the vinaigrette.
- If you give an armadillo a fright, he'll stop, and drop, and roll up tight.
- She could tendu beautifully, roll up into relevé, and even go onto full pointe.