How to Use roll down in a Sentence

roll down

phrasal verb
  • The car rolled down the hill, into a ravine and landed against a tree.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • Delta said a nose gear tire and rim had come loose and then rolled down a hill.
    Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
  • No one was found in the front seat, and the driver's side window was rolled down.
    Katherine Itoh, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Then, a foot on the screen nudges the bottle of wine and sends it rolling down a set of concrete stairs.
    Shaeden Berry, refinery29.com, 20 July 2023
  • But Ellis couldn't roll down the window to talk to the teen because the air was too smoky.
    Ashley Riegle, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The car veered off the roadway, rolled down an embankment and hit a tree.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The bouncers locked the doors and rolled down a garage door-style window opening.
    The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Once inside the car, the tears continued to roll down his face.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • There are grips around the top to stop it from rolling down, and the material is very nice.
    Malia Griggs, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2024
  • At the same moment, an SUV pulled up, and the driver rolled down her window.
    Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The gate rolls down, large metal doors clang in the middle, and Buddy Guy has left the building.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Brian said to Jim, as the rancher pulled over and rolled down his window.
    Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Place hard avocados in a paper bag and fold or roll down the top to close the bag.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Lancaster terminal was cleaned out, and the doors rolled down and locked.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Eventually, the driver of the truck was able to roll down his window and briefly hit the brakes.
    Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Choose your metaphor: A door opens, a page turns, a window rolls down and a new dog’s sweet nose will sniff the fresh air of freedom.
    Mariashines, cleveland, 24 July 2023
  • From Uptown to Lakeview, floats, trucks, golf carts and cars decked out with streamers and flags rolled down the street.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
  • First, the sedan’s door latch on the passenger side was jammed and Fishman had to roll down the window and open it from the outside.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 7 July 2024
  • Esther felt a sudden wave of nausea and tears once again rolled down her cheeks.
    Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The driver, Jose Luis Benitez Sanchez, pulled up to the dancing group with his window rolled down.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
  • According to reviewers, the bike shorts don’t roll down, and the fabric isn’t see through.
    Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2023
  • After the Fiat rolls down the Spanish Steps like a toddler on a knoll, their places are reversed.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • At the top of the ladder-like stairs that rolled down to meet me with a thud there was now a hole in the ceiling where Nick Cave himself stood, bathed in backlight.
    Mark Mordue, SPIN, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Place hard avocados in a paper bag and fold or roll down the top to close the bag to trap ethylene.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2024
  • The wife, sitting innocently in the passenger’s seat, might roll down the window and make the toss.
    TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The loggia looks over the swimming pool, beyond which a tree-shaded lawn rolls down to the estate’s 300 feet of river frontage.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
  • During their wedding day last month, Seewald rolled down the 60 feet aisle for about 40 feet in her wheelchair.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This was a man on an electric scooter, rolling down a crowded Seattle street in the early evening, strapped with a gun.
    USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • Experts said drivers should roll down their windows after being pulled over, even on a hot summer day.
    Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2024
  • This field would quickly move from potential to kinetic energy and back again, as if the field were rolling down a hill, into a valley, up another hill and then back down again over and over.
    Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024

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