How to Use rogue in a Sentence

rogue

1 of 2 adjective

• Prince's full lips are glazed with gloss and pout like a rogue baby doll.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 15 May 2023
• When the shot went wide, the commentator blamed a rogue mole who had popped up through the grass.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
• There have always been rogue cops, and there were ways of weeding them out.
  — WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
• The one whose screens have seen it all – the Zoom fails, the ‘Oh sh—t’ deadline moments, and the rogue coffee splashes?
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• They were rocked by blast and rogue wave during Antarctic cruise.
  — Eric Williams, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2022
• And as the surf grew throughout the day, rogue waves often washed onto the beach to soak spectators.
  — CBS News, 23 Jan. 2023
• There are a few explanations of how rogue waves take shape.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• Crates were loaded onto the truck, which Jameson kept there so rogue bees could find their hives.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• Rhodes has said in interviews with right-wing hosts that there was no plan to storm the Capitol and that the members who did so went rogue.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
• Isiah and Nate are caught and have to escape rogue justice before they get killed.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• Still a daredevil at 70, Corey’s dad was body surfing when a rogue wave slammed his skull into the sand.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2022
• Edwards, on the other hand, still sees things like climate change as a bigger threat than rogue AI.
  — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• The writings of a rogue German priest named Martin Luther were publicly burned in its courtyard in 1520.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• Edwards, on the other hand, still sees things such as climate change as a bigger threat than rogue AI.
  — Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
• Or maybe there were rogue cells already coursing through my rollish veins that might waylay me down the road?
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Nov. 2022
• The lid also screws on tightly to create a seal that will protect against rogue water.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• The claims made by the rogue members contradicted the stated mission.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2022
• Many diplomats have told me in the past that, even with a rogue state such as Russia, some dialogue is better than none.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 28 July 2022
• Saudi Arabia has blamed the journalist’s killing on rogue agents.
  — Zeynep Karatas, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
• Two days later, Maher pinned the blame on a rogue developer, but Roberts didn’t buy it.
  — John Hyatt, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• In Season 3, Lamb’s disgraced spies work together to foil a rogue agent when one of their own is kidnapped.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 1 June 2022
• The Ukraine invasion has been an object lesson in the risks of doing business with a rogue nation.
  — WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• One dab of this classic salve tames dry patches and peeling lips (and, at Allure HQ, sometimes rogue brow hairs).
  — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• Plus the aiding and abetting of other tyrannical leaders of rogue states.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Mar. 2022
• The first images of rogue worlds came in the 2000s, when astronomers spotted a few objects still glowing in infrared light from the heat of their formation.
  — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
• So, Russian journalist Alexei Pivovarov traveled to Tehran to learn what life is like in a rogue state.
  — Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2022
• Shoppers will decide if not having to stick a finger in their cocktail to retrieve a rogue lemon seed is worth a higher price.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Now for that second mechanism, that can certainly lead to rogue waves.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2023
• The New York Post said that a series of vulgar and racist tweets and headlines published Thursday morning were the result of a rogue employee.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 27 Oct. 2022
• Others carried handbags stuffed with rogue heels and spare pairs of underwear.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2023

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rogue

2 of 2 noun

• He's a lovable old rogue.
• Even The New York Times ran a piece in 2003 about the rogue’s gallery in the backyard.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Dress in a princess’s gown or a rogue’s rags for this year’s theme: 1536.
  — Stephanie Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
• Why would the rogue Prince Daemon agree to join forces with Driftmark?
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022
• So, the risk of having your brain dissolved by a rogue amoeba is very low.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
• My mind raced, cycling through a rogue’s gallery of suspects.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• What makes this one, Holbrook’s Clement Mansell, stack up with some of the greats from the Justified rogues gallery?
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• If this becomes the team’s main source of food, Coach Ben could be one to watch as a rogue dissident.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 30 Mar. 2023
• Tufts of beige grass poked from the dark surface of the land, like rogue patches of hair on an elephant’s wrinkled back.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2023
• But Monday was not the first time Trumka went rogue since the October vote.
  — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
• The nightmare of a rogue AI taking over is just not happening.
  — Kevin Kelly, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
• Some of the students went rogue in ways that dismayed the originators of the mission.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 31 Oct. 2022
• The flavors of chiles, shrimp and char in its broth build with each spoonful until the combined force hits you like a rogue wave.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• What style taboo will this rogue Jennifer Lawrence embrace next?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2023
• At the outer limit—in the case of rogue malware or pathogens—such drastic steps might be needed.
  — Mustafa Suleyman, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• Vhagar, in turn, went rogue and took a big ol’ bite out of Arrax, killing both the smaller dragon and Lucerys in one chomp.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• For couples, drama and discord could surge up with Mars gone rogue.
  — ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• Slater seemed pretty impressed with the ability to go rogue on set.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 10 Sep. 2022
• Berries Fresh berries have a pretty short life before going rogue.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 1 Mar. 2023
• The fiercest critics of short-term rentals don’t believe the platforms can put a stop to parties or rogue rentals in general.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• But the colleague who drew his name went rogue, and instead bought him socks with his 6-year-old daughter’s face printed on them.
  — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• But Dellrayne went rogue, and Diana herself fled the program.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
• These deviled eggs have gone rogue in the best way, thanks to the addition of chili powder, peppers, and Cheddar cheese.
  — Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2023
• Back in King’s Landing, Viserys chides Rhaenyra for going rogue.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
• Kane isn’t just messing around with random scenarios to see all the ways a rogue planet might spell our demise.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• The case was just a blip on the national security radar, reduced to a tale of a lone Guardsman gone rogue.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The webs can be used to snag on-screen scenery like boxes and levers which alter the futuristic landscapes filled with the rogue robots.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• This one has room for a name or phrase that’s specific to you, and can be thrown in the washing machine if there’s a rogue accident or spill.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
• Look for fabrics like ripstop nylon to make sure a rogue boulder snag doesn’t ruin your trip.
  — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2023
• There are a few hints in the story that this activity wasn’t just a one-off example of a single stake in Utah that went rogue.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024