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How to use roach in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun, verb

Roach means any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially. Example: “Give me a drag on that roach!”

Examples of roach by meaning

nounAn entire marijuana cigarette, blunt, or joint.

  • He'd take just half a roach, only enough to make him feel a new day was starting, no more no less.1957, Alfred Maund, The Big Boxcar, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 106

nounThe filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper (often of the cigarette paper packet itself).

  • Last toke is the yellowing fabric of the roach, containing the stuff that is less than tobacco.2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 292

verbSynonym of roach out.

  • Yamato roached on his best friend.2025 February 7, Bravado, Blizzard Forums
  • I stand by it being a horrible call, but Yamdef getting called out for roaching, there’s definitely some irony going on there.2025 February 7, Skunkyboy, Blizzard Forums

More sentences with roach

  • Give me a drag on that roach!From the entry drag
  • She splatted the roach with her shoe.From the entry splat
  • Raid lead says to stay in and finish the boss, Yamdef roaches out instead.2025 February 7, Bravado, Blizzard Forums. From the entry roach out
  • If Yamato didnt roach out, boss easily dies before the last aoe kills T1.2025 February 7, Bravado, Blizzard Forums. From the entry roach out
  • MAHONEY: In the beginning, the NYSE was truly the roach motel.2022, Robert A. Schwartz, John Aidan Byrne, Eileen Stempel, 40 Years of Experience with the National Market System (NMS), page 51. From the entry roach motel
  • We baited some double-sticky tape and roach traps, but I doubt they'll catch anything."2017, Jeffrey A[lan] Lockwood, Murder on the Fly, Fayetteville, A.R.: Pen-L Publishing, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry joanie
  • Once, a roach entomologist in Gainesville, Florida, helped a woman overcome her lifelong katsaridaphobia.2017 Summer, Clinton Crockett Peters, “Water Bugs: A Story Of Absolution”, in Southern Review, volume 53, number 3. From the entry katsaridaphobia
  • A fighter, she wore the traditional haircut, shaved temples, roach of hair tugged back in a horsetail.2012, Clayton Emery, Mortal Consequences: Forgotten Realms. From the entry horsetail
  • You can get data into a “roach motel”, but you can't easily get it out.2010, William H. Inmon, Bonnie O'Neil, Lowell Fryman, Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge, page 141. From the entry roach motel
  • Roach are nothing if not memorable, but her book consistently undermines its own discoveries.2008 April 7, Janet Maslin, “A Sex Researcher Walks Into a Lab, and Then Things Start to Get Comical”, in The New York Times, archived…. From the entry undermine
  • Once I managed to combine something in which I had included also roach pulp and galleyworm legs.1996, Graziella Parati, Public History, Private Stories: Italian Women's Autobiography, page 85. From the entry galleyworm
  • Roach has not been a paid-up member of the alarmist camp.1991 October 6, Floyd Norris, “Services: A Boom Area Goes Bust”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jul 2013. From the entry paid-up
  • Up these steep walkways cannelured for footpurchase, the free passage of roaches.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 21. From the entry steep
  • When your picture flipples, it could be that 30 roaches are on a treadmill doing their exercises.1975, TV Guide. From the entry flipple
  • Rhode Island had a way of trapping its inhabitants like roaches that check in but can never escape.2012 October 23, Rey Otis, Dead Batteries, Black Bed Sheet Books, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry bucket
  • But there are many things that you can do in your home to discourage roach populations from building.1996, Gordon, David G. (David George), 1950-, The compleat cockroach : a comprehensive guide to the most despised (and least understood)…. From the entry anticockroach
  • So roach were taken by the stringsful.1934 May 10, Ben Courter, “Jersey Trout Anglers Come Into Own as May Days Bring Insect Hatch as Effective Lure”, in Evening Courier…. From the entry stringful
  • There is no end of the headings you can devise using “roach” in each, thus: The roach dies.1900 September 10, “Tell It in the Headline”, in American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, volume XXXVII, number 5 (whole 457), New…. From the entry roachless
  • Boron is a nonmetallic element, and compounds of it, such as borax, have been used in products for decades, ranging from detergents to roach poison.2018 November 20, Wayne Drash, “Consumer group warns of ‘dangerous’ slime products and other hazardous toys”, in CNN. From the entry nonmetallic
  • Since introducing HARRIS ROACH TABLETS many testimonials have been received by boosters who have tried the successful method of ridding your home of roaches.1942 August 7, “Harris Roach Tablets Sure Death to Roaches”, in Tampa Morning Tribune, 49th year, number 219, Tampa, Fla., page nine. From the entry roachless
  • PirateSoftware's behavior is being labeled as "roaching out" online, that is, partaking in a conservative and passive playstyle that focuses on self-survival rather than taking an assertive and engaged role.2025 January 13, Atharv Kapoor, “What does "roach out" mean in World of Warcraft? Controversy explored as Sodapoppin weighs in on Pirate…. From the entry playstyle

Meaning of roach

  1. noun Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially.
  2. noun A common roach (Rutilus rutilus).
  3. noun Any member of the genus Hesperoleucus of California roaches.

Full definition of roach

Questions about roach in a sentence

How do you use roach in a sentence?
Roach is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Give me a drag on that roach!”
What is a short sentence with roach?
“Yamato roached on his best friend.”
What does roach mean?
Roach means any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially.

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