ROLL in a Sentence

Learn ROLL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

288 example sentences for ROLL, such as:

1. The ball rolled into the hole.
2. Her baby rolled off the bed this morning.
3. The mountains rolled away to a distant horizon.
4. The photographer shot the usual roll of pictures.
5. We rolled up our trousers and paddled along the seashore.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROLL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
roll
 v.  move along a surface by turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He tried in vain to roll over in the direction of the sound, and stretched his left arm out across the snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  They don't need me among their number, either to brighten the record of patriotism or to increase the roll of paupers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  She unlocked the wardrobe, and taking out her jewel-case, looked under the tray for the roll of bills from which she had replenished the purse before going down to dinner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
5  At last his spout grew thick, and with a frightful roll and vomit, he turned upon his back a corpse.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
6  Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
7  I fancied that you could feel them, and roll them about in you after they were swallowed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
8  From this height the whale was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout into the air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
9  We had begun to roll popcorn balls with syrup when we heard a knock at the back door, and Tony dropped her spoon and went to open it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
10  Cuzak had brought home with him a roll of illustrated Bohemian papers.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
11  They ran into the house and found Wick Cutter lying on a sofa in his upstairs bedroom, with his throat torn open, bleeding on a roll of sheets he had placed beside his head.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
12  Madame Ratignolle folded her sewing, placing thimble, scissors, and thread all neatly together in the roll, which she pinned securely.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
13  They stood outside the window and the cook passed them their coffee and a roll, which they drank and ate from the window-sill.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
14  She produced the roll of sketches and started to unfold them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
15  He would come to her in the afternoon or evening, sit and roll his cigarette, talk a little, and go away as he had done the night before.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXV
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
16  Rock 'n' roll music was largely co-opted from the blues.
17  The photographer shot the usual roll of pictures.
18  You could see the glimmer from the pond in the front yard and hear the gentle roll of the water from the small creek.
19  The manner of his election will have failed to impress, with a hugely inflated voters roll, the theft of ballot boxes by the army.
20  Place the roll in the prepared loaf pan, making sure the seam is on the bottom.
21  The senator asked for a roll call to determine whether a quorum was present.
22  The reading out of a roll call of the dead has become an annual rite.
23  The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on.
24  You're a disgrace boy! Sleeping in a cupboard, eating frozen chicken and massacring a sausage roll on bed!
25  When he stood for a solo, he gyrated and played with a blaring tone, more like hard-core rock and roll than jazz or swing.
26  It was a far cry from the look she cultivated when she first appeared on the fashion scene typically dressed in a punkish, provocative mixture of men's and women's wear. “I had fun with androgyny, I had fun being rock ‘n' roll,” she said.
27  We rolled up our trousers and paddled along the seashore.
28  The mountains rolled away to a distant horizon.
29  Her baby rolled off the bed this morning.
30  The ball rolled into the hole.