rolling

[ UK /ɹˈə‍ʊlɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹoʊɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. propelling something on wheels
  2. the act of robbing a helpless person
    he was charged with rolling drunks in the park
  3. a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
ADJECTIVE
  1. uttered with a trill
    she used rolling r's as in Spanish
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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.
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