How to Use rove in a Sentence

rove

verb

• Deano emerged and watched the bears rove around the gas station.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Feral cats and roving hounds have been known to hunt them down.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Liam, meanwhile, is told to assemble an elite gang of warriors and rove around the globe.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• Instead, keep your gaze roving over the entire night sky.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• The buffet, and roving carts of food from servers, feature over 100 options.
  — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2023
• After more than six years of exploring the Red Planet, the Mars rover Spirit will rove no more.
  — Aline Reynolds, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2010
• At Lam Kwong Deli & Market, dim sum is served all day — without the roving carts or hot tea service.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 23 Mar. 2024
• Next year or the year after, infielders may not be allowed to rove into the outfield on shifts.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 5 July 2021
• Jim Dines, her owner, who had been roving fore and aft all day, finally had a moment to talk.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• Esposito began his life as a roving child of the stage.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• Bands of fugitives, landless laborers, and tax evaders rove the Judean wilderness.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
• Felt on a thin piece of roving in a different color if desired (to make the blue swirls on Neptune, for instance).
  — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
• Mobile unit managed by a local partner to be named that will rove East Central Ohio.
  — Laura Mazade, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2021
• Breaks in the clouds created roving patches of sunlight that lit up the frosty ground and cast long shadows from the towering pine trees.
  — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• That’s when the days get a little longer, and the water begins to heat up and stay that way, goading bass to start roving into the shallow and move up onto beds.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024
• But even then, the visitors will ignore the warnings from the flags and roving lifeguard patrols who will alert them about staying out of the water.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 15 July 2023
• Our reporters and photographers were roving in and around the convention center to take it all in.
  — Hannah Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Many of the entrepreneurs running such businesses rove from mine to mine, moving on when the minerals dry up or rebels march into town.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• The result is the Frenchmen Party, a roving theme party that takes place in different parishes all over the island.
  — Annie Daly, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• But the roving EVs are just the most visible part of Revel’s transformation.
  — Time, 26 July 2023
• New this year are roving carolers, hot chocolate and popcorn in Dupont Circle park.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Papaya Tree offers a simple menu of Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese classics and is one of my favorite roving kitchens.
  — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2023
• Clothing that doesn’t beg for the attention of paparazzi, but nonetheless looks good should it be captured by a roving team of TMZ reporters.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2024
• Then, on the Panamanian side, small criminal bands rove the forest, using rape as a tool to extract money and punish those who cannot pay.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The trial showed that if Boylan had assigned a roving patrol or night watch or properly trained his crew to fight fires, those 34 people would be alive today.
  — Vicki Moore, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
• Last June and July, Publix did a similar promotion with a roving truck scooping out free ice cream.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• On-the-water surveys: Biologists rove the reservoir by boat and interview anglers on the water.
  — Dallas News, 8 May 2021
• But Google and Everyday Robots stressed at the time that a roving butler at one’s beck and call remained far from consumer availability.
  — WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
• Today the company boasts around 50 roving trucks and brick-and-mortar restaurants across 45 American cities.
  — Mrussell, oregonlive, 18 July 2023
• Its roving ground robot, aptly named Polly, moves between rows of plants and blasts pulses of air to prompt pollination.
  — Molly Glick, Scientific American, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024