ROLLED in a Sentence

rolling

 n.  propelling something on wheels

 a.  uttered with a trill

roll

 v.  move along a surface by turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel

1  On the farther side of the hemlock belt the open country rolled away before them grey and lonely under the stars.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II

2  The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V

3  When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

4  She untied the knot and a handful of gold coins rolled out on the bed.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII

5  Atlanta had watched while train after train rolled through the town, hour after hour, passenger coaches, box cars, flat cars, filled with shouting men.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI

6  They could hear the rumblings of the batteries, see the smoke which rolled like low-hanging clouds above the trees, but for hours no one knew how the battle was going.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

7  He was coatless and his sleeves were rolled up to his shoulders.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI

8  Cannon rolled past, the drivers flaying the thin mules with lengths of rawhide.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI

9  Prissy had recovered her breath and a small measure of control but her eyes still rolled.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

10  Prissy rolled her eyes as she looked about her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

11  Prissy rolled her eyes wildly, peeping first at the set face of her mistress and then at the cow which bawled plaintively.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

12  She rolled the table under the window, gathered up her skirts, climbed on it and tiptoed to reach the heavy curtain pole.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

13  And on Sunday afternoons, the handsome closed carriages of the madams of the district rolled down the main streets, filled with girls in their best finery, taking the air from behind lowered silk shades.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

14  Ashley began to read the prayers and all heads bowed as his resonant, beautifully modulated voice rolled out the brief and dignified words.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL

15  As he rolled off through the crowd of masons and carpenters and hod carriers Scarlett felt relieved and her spirits rose.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII

16  The vase rolled off the edge of the table and smashed.

17  They baby rolled over the edge of the bed and fell down.

18  The runaway bus eventually came to a standstill when it rolled into a muddy field.

19  I rolled my eyes upward to indicate distaste at this telephonic excess.

20  When I was a little kid I rolled down a hill and broke my leg.

21  He often rolled his eyes about when he was doing his homework.

22  The car rolled onto its roof, trapping him.

23  As the rock rolled down, it gathered momentum.

24  A big rock rolled down and he only just escaped being hit.

25  He's an artist, a scientist and a shrewd businessman rolled into one.

26  When mists as chill as death wandered to the impulse of east winds along those purple peaks, and rolled down "ing" and holm till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck!

27  After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable.

28  According to the stories, he stopped the car or thought he had stopped it and it rolled into the hydrant and tree.

29  Great tears rolled down his sunken cheeks, he lightly rested her forehead on his thin sinewy arm.

30  After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his Romeo and Juliet by heart.