How to Use rollicking in a Sentence

rollicking

adjective

• We had a rollicking good time.
• The singer co-wrote the rollicking track with Mitch Oglesby.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2017
• But would a rollicking rally, such as the one held for Strange ahead of his loss to Moore in 2017, do much good?
  — al, 22 Nov. 2019
• For the most rollicking times, sit in the Pavilions (the outfield), or the Top Deck, where the game is less important than the beach balls and the beer.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 1 May 2017
• This latest trade is just the next shocker in the rollicking fun of this summer.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 12 July 2019
• The Warriors are fully healthy and rollicking teams, having stormed through the West with a 12-0 record.
  — Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 25 May 2017
• If not, the end of a rollicking, unpredictable season will be at hand.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 20 May 2017
• Half the fun of zipping through the rollicking family drama of Crazy Rich Asians is the fashion.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
• That was the unexpected pleasure of James Gunn’s first Guardians film, a vivid and rollicking space opera-lite.
  — vanityfair.com, 25 Apr. 2017
• The bitters emit a pink glow and a herbal edge; the sugar sends up a trickle of sweetness and a stream of bubbles as rollicking as a Roman...
  — Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2017
• Barnett, who was raised in Tasmania, is steeped in garage grunge and rollicking alt-rock.
  — Rebecca Haithcoat, GQ, 17 Oct. 2017
• To be fair, many in the audience last weekend appeared to be having a rollicking good time.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• The unexpected result was that the new, straighter route allowed the police to speed the parade a bit more quickly than the rollicking krewe was used to.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• His brother Earl Long was renowned for his rollicking stump speeches.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 15 July 2019
• The vibe of your ride is up to you — choose between a rollicking group ride or a romantic private ride, and a daytime ride or a sunset ride.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• This is the Tony Award-winning musical about King Arthur and his rollicking round table.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
• The pair divvied up the songs that the elder Frey sang with the band during his lifetime, with the small Frey taking on the rollicking material and Gill taking the mellow road.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2018
• Paul adored those 2008 Hornets, the rollicking team dinners at his condo downtown and the heated game nights at Tyson Chandler's house in the suburbs.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Among the most distinctive of our native gulls, the laughing gull is well named; its rollicking call is as evocative of the summer beach season as the smell of Coppertone and salt air.
  — Dave Taft, New York Times, 25 May 2017
• But the way that Toy Story 2 weds its themes to its more rollicking elements in a way that complements both makes it among Pixar’s crowning achievements.
  — Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 21 June 2019
• A rollicking rescue movie with deep ache and hope in its heart, Okja feels like just the right story for this grim political moment.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
• Laura Jane Grace and rock goddess Joan Jett to tackle the ballad, turning it into a rollicking backyard jam.
  — Andrew Daniels, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2017
• Later, 350 more revelers joined the After Party jam — a rollicking dance party that spread throughout the center jumping with the sounds of three live bands.
  — Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2018
• Zolak is best known for his rollicking sense of humor, his loyalty to his old team and his passionate radio calls.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• If this sounds a bit heady for a rollicking tragicomedy in which pratfalls and death throes are tumbled together, that is part of the play’s unusual scheme.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Flight of Passage is a rollicking simulator that re-creates adventures aboard a mountain banshee, the winged best friend of the Na’vi.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2017
• The rest of the episode is a rollicking ride of each of their hazy perspectives and recollections, with a race to find witnesses who will give them accounts of what really happened that night.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• Eat and Drink Rosa Mexicano—no relation to the chain—is a rollicking restaurant that serves coconut shrimp and octopus with black-bean relish.
  — Ondine Cohane, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2017
• With Louisiana flair, Creole Stomp rolls out a rollicking brand of Cajun sounds.
  — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2018
• Alamo Drafthouse is giving it the movie party treatment, complete with props and surprises to bring the rollicking action onscreen to vivid life inside the theater.
  — Hunter Johnson, Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2020

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