roll - use in sentences

Object

  • dice: A. The answer to 1 is not related to 2. Miss your turn to roll the dice.
  • hill: The winding roads and rolling hills near the Tennessee border provided ample pleasures at 40 to 50 mph.
  • d666: Arcangel rolls the d666 and gets 1 2 CHECK: 1. Tarot glances across, and attempts to evade them in the crowd.
  • countryside: Golden Sands Holiday Park In attractive parkland with views over rolling countryside.
  • stock: Policy measures would aim at a more efficient use of rolling stock - higher occupancy, higher rate of operating time.
  • farmland: Walk on rugged hillsides, through forests, over grouse moors and rolling farmland to the coastal cliff tops.

Converse of object

  • drum: Listen to the opening drum roll on the first Small Faces album.

Preposition: out

  • pastry: Transfer the rolled out pastry to the top of the pie using the rolling pin in the same way described for the base pastry.

Adjective modifier

  • electoral: April 13th is the final day to register for the electoral roll.

Modifies a noun

  • cage: The design incorporates high strength steel tubing as found in roll cages and the like.

Noun used with modifier

  • sausage: It was lovely, not a sausage roll in sight.
  • bacon: On Saturday morning, cereal and bacon rolls will be on the menu.
  • loo: Top tip re: empty loo roll stuffed with hay - my 2 bunnies have had great fun!
  • toilet: He left the shop with no toilet roll, overwhelmed by the choice.
  • n: The Subs were formed in 1976 and specialized in sub three minute versions of punchy rock n roll.
  • 'n': You could argue that this is a move back to the heyday of rock 'n' roll where the single was the dominant force.

Possessives

  • n: They really love rock ' n ' roll, they really respond.

Preposition: in

  • aisle: The event was a celebration of lesser published, underground limericks which left the 70 strong audience rolling in the aisles.

Preposition: of

  • dice: The movement of the checkers follows the outcome of a roll of two dice, the numbers on the two dice constituting separate moves.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • over: A daily bet can also be rolled over into the following day's daily bet with ease.

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