roll
move by turning over or rotating
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,665 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,263 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- move by turning over or rotating also: turn over The child rolled down the hillturn over on your left side
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle also: wheel The President's convoy rolled past the crowds
- occur in soft rounded shapes also: undulate The hills rolled past
- flatten or spread with a roller also: roll out roll out the paper
- emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound The thunder rolledrolling drums
- arrange or or coil around also: wind, wrap, twine roll your hair around your fingerTwine the thread around the spool
roll in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Tom pounced upon him in a moment, and uttered the mystic roll.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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Vrouw Vedder took out the butter and worked it into a nice roll.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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She'll corner Walderhurst and talk literature and roll her eyes at him until he hates her.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Three days afterwards there came a scrubby little roll of paper, with a halfpenny stamp on it.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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He drew from his pocket a roll of bank-notes, and, throwing them upon the table, “Hand him this,” he added.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1