[
UK
/ɹˈəʊlɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɹoʊɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹoʊɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- propelling something on wheels
-
the act of robbing a helpless person
he was charged with rolling drunks in the park - a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
ADJECTIVE
-
uttered with a trill
she used rolling r's as in Spanish
How To Use rolling In A Sentence
- On his first day there he approached a couple of elegant young toffs strolling around the campus. Times, Sunday Times
- In a few quick glances he absorbed the entire rolling farmland: green stonework mortared by tree windbreaks.
- He is rolling drunk.
- The comedian was very good indeed. He had the audience rolling in the aisles.
- Brandt was the impresario who had discovered Carly Simon and unleashed the Rolling Stones on America.
- The pilot straps himself to this bulky rig in a standing position, controlling it with joysticks during vertical takeoff and landing - or VTOL, as we say in the hover biz.
- He originally believed cars would be rolling on it by now.
- Around me the room was pleasantly dark, rolling in drunken contentedness.
- The warnings that permeate Polonius's speeches derive from his misperception of controlling his daughter's sexuality.
- The railway had made a considerable capital outlay on new rolling stock.
