rolled
especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,665 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,935 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward also: involute
- uttered with a trill also: rolling, trilled she used rolling r's as in Spanish
- rolled up and secured also: furled furled sails bound securely to the spara furled flag
rolled 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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Big tears rolled down her withered cheeks.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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A lumberman: perchance, in hold Prostrate pines with hemlocks rolled.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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How he used to envy the members of the Elevens as they rolled arm-in-arm down the High Street!
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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The Negro rolled and tossed out of the mass, only to be pushed back by the people nearest him.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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On the farther side of the hemlock belt the open country rolled away before them grey and lonely under the stars.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1