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How to use roger in a sentence

21 example sentences · interjection, verb, noun

Roger means received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood). Example: “Rogers got the thumb for shoving the linesman after being called offside.”

Examples of roger by meaning

interjectionReceived (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood).

  • Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT.1950 May, Flying Magazine, page 46

verbTo acknowledge by saying "roger".

  • The Explorer radio operator rogered receipt of the War Room's signal.2011, Charles Ryan, Phoenix Strike

More sentences with roger

  • Rogers got the thumb for shoving the linesman after being called offside.From the entry get the thumb
  • Roger was given a violent wham by his boxing opponent.From the entry wham
  • Roger Federer smiling wolfishly to the crowd: a return to woke?2026 February 9, Aaron Timms, “Bad Bunny and jingoism lite: was this the Super Bowl where woke roared back?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry wolfishly
  • Roger pushed in a book that was protruding beyond its shelfmates.2017, Stuart Fortey, The Diva in the Duck Pond, page 63. From the entry shelfmate
  • Rogers picked up the phone and entered three numbers on his key pad.2016, Robert Ellis, chapter 59, in The Love Killings, Seattle, Wash.: Thomas & Mercer, →ISBN, page 292. From the entry key pad
  • Roger, in terms of the strengths he brought to the band, was wild abandonment.2008, Jake Brown, Heart: In the Studio. From the entry abandonment
  • Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is the CIA’s man on the front line. . . .2008 November 24, James Luxford, “REVIEW: Body Of Lies”, in entertainmentwise.com, retrieved 13 Jul 2012. From the entry company man
  • Roger ran back and, instead of hoisting a defensive lob, went for a reverse between-the-legs squash shot, which didn't come off.2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life, →ISBN, page 289. From the entry squash shot
  • Rogers smoking a hash pipe, I dedicated a little something special to all the children back in the orphanarium.2010, Matthew Collins, Geoffrey Collins, The Ultimate Zombie Hunter's Handbook, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry orphanarium
  • Roger Clemens pitched well on Monday for the Yankees’ Class AAA team, and could join the bigleague rotation next week.2007 May 30, Tyler Kepner, “Clemens Slotted to Face White Sox”, in New York Times. From the entry bigleague
  • Rogers 3d, who have profited from business with the state.1975 July 7, Ben A. Franklin, “MANDEL INQUIRY STIRS MARYLAND”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2024. From the entry chiefly
  • Roger de Flor was given the title of megaduke and the King of Bulgaria's daughter as his wife.1968, Alan Lloyd, The Spanish Centuries, page 56. From the entry megaduke
  • “Roger, you run the lighting show.2017, Mary Emerick, “Burning the Prairies”, in Fire in the Heart: A Memoir of Friendship, Loss, and Wildfire, New York, N.Y.: Arcade…. From the entry whatever melts your butter
  • Roger Ross Williams hopes "God Loves Uganda" will give him another shot at an acceptance speech after his first was "Kanye'd" by a disgruntled collaborator.2013 October 30, Chris O'Falt, “Documentarian Ambushed at Oscars Returns With Film on Africa’s Deadly Anti-Gay Campaigns”, in The…. From the entry Kanye
  • Rogers in a Black Sabbath T-shirt.2007 January 7, Elissa Schappell, “Exile on Sesame Street”, in New York Times. From the entry soymilk
  • Roger let out a great bark of laughter, then slapped Jason heartily on the back, causing him to spill the remainder of his drink.2003, Yankee Earl, page 143. From the entry cow-handed
  • Roger Lloyd's books on railways are an abiding delight to 'railwayacs' and the latest, 'Railwaymen's Gallery' (George Allen and Unwin), is well up to standard.1953, The Quarterly Review, volumes 291-292, page 547. From the entry railwayac
  • Roger came through, rustling up four shirts and trousers, two belts, pointed out the underwear selections, where Alex riffled through the boxers, boxer-briefs, and trunks, choosing a package of each.2021, Shirley Goldberg, Eat Your Heart Out. From the entry trunks
  • Roger was in the library, trying to choose, from an embarrassment of riches, the ten of his father's books which he was to be permitted to take to the city.1908, Myrtle Reed, chapter 23, in Flower of the Dusk. From the entry embarrassment of riches

Meaning of roger

  1. interjection Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood).
  2. verb To acknowledge by saying "roger".
  3. verb Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner.

Full definition of roger

Questions about roger in a sentence

How do you use roger in a sentence?
Roger is used as an interjection, verb and noun. For example: “Rogers got the thumb for shoving the linesman after being called offside.”
What is a short sentence with roger?
“Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT.”
What does roger mean?
Roger means received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: roger (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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