roller

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Recent Examples of roller One day, her boyfriend invited her to come to a roller derby event. Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2024 This way, the tinsel won't clog or get caught in the roller bar of your vacuum. Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Dec. 2024 Her process begins with massaging the face using tools like microcurrents, rollers and gua sha to rejuvenate the skin. Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 3 Jan. 2025 The main building, which sits just beyond a little church, is a warren of small rooms crammed with ephemera like wood masks, accordions, and butter rollers that owners Emanuela and Sergio Rossi have acquired over the years. Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for roller 
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Noun
  • On the water, target current breaks, pools, and deep riffles where trout will wait and ambush their food.
    Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 12 June 2024
  • Sandbars and rock bars and gravel bars could be broken down into a full taxonomy describing their size and shape and orientation: chains and traps, riffles and reefs.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
Noun
  • In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.
    Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.
    Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Google Images shows a young man with a head of enviable black curls (unlike the head of fifty-one-year-old Thadeus Wong).
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The chainmail dress was paired with Lorraine Schwartz jewels, while the star’s brunette hair was styled in loose curls.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Does the little surge of Trump dances across sports represent a wave, or at least a wavelet, of athletes declaring their allegiances for the President-elect?
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
  • And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Then one day in 2019, her son Huxley disappeared from videos altogether, prompting a tidal wave of questions from fans and eventually sparking a scandal that ended her career online entirely.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn cranked the blitz dial up to 10, engulfing Darnold in the pocket like a tidal wave.
    Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Remember, buttermilk is already cultured and tangy, so a little age isn't a deal breaker.
    Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Connor Hellebuyck is having another fantastic, Vezina Trophy-caliber season, Davis Payne’s power play is firing on all cylinders, and Winnipeg’s top skaters — Mark Scheifele, Josh Morrissey, Kyle Connor, Nikolaj Ehlers and Gabriel Vilardi — are all playing like game breakers.
    Scott Powers, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on December 26 to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean, in one of the worst natural disasters in human history.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Every new wave of technology builds on the last — but 2025 feels more like a tsunami than a ripple.
    Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2025

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“Roller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roller. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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