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For ROVE, below is one of 24 sentences:
He roves about in the garden of the palace and upon the ramparts: yes, once he even shot your father and mother right in the heart.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rove
 n.  act of wandering about, over, around, or through
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores: he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink satin.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Thus far the reddleman had been tolerably successful in his rude contrivances for keeping down Wildeve's inclination to rove in the evening.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
3  Sometimes a fever gathered within him and led him to rove alone in the evening along the quiet avenue.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  He roves about in the garden of the palace and upon the ramparts: yes, once he even shot your father and mother right in the heart.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE NAUGHTY BOY
5  But she did not get it, for though he joined her and answered all her questions freely, she could only learn that he had roved about the Continent and been to Greece.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
6  The little girls had a private tea party, and Ted roved among the edibles at his own sweet will.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
7  For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  My eye still roved over the sullen swell and along the moor-edge, vanishing amidst the wildest scenery, when at one dim point, far in among the marshes and the ridges, a light sprang up.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  So she roved about by herself, and looked at all the rooms and chambers, till at last she came to an old tower, to which there was a narrow staircase ending with a little door.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In BRIAR ROSE
10  His eyes, meanwhile, roved very slowly all around the room--he completed the arc by turning to inspect the people directly behind.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  No, Stephen, old chap, I'm sorry to say that they are only as I roved out one fine May morning in the merry month of sweet July.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  The eyes of Porthos were furtively cast upon this lady, and then roved about at large over the nave.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
13  Along the railroad the sections of snow fence, which had been stacked all summer in romantic wooden tents occupied by roving small boys, were set up to prevent drifts from covering the track.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  It was a roving shanty, the cabin of a land schooner, with black oilcloth seats along the side, and for desk, a pine board to be let down on hinges.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  No man can leave his family at night without the dread that some roving Negro ruffian is watching and waiting for this opportunity.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence:
1  If Porkey�s rove is so smart and is in touch with the people, why doesn't he take his own advice and run for office?
2  His eye/gaze roved hungrily about the room.
3  She became a photographer, roving the world with her camera in her hand.