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How to use roving in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective, noun

Roving means moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place. Example: “His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.”

Examples of roving by meaning

adjectiveOf the eyes or gaze, inspecting all over; not staying fixed on one subject.

  • His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.
  • Particularly when Larry’s roving eye is factored in.1989, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Visible Breath, Dark Horse Books
  • There was a tall, green-eyed young woman with steeply slanting Central European cheekbones who particularly caught his sexually abstinent but still roving eye.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4

More sentences with roving

  • Sound but more workaday fleeces are batched to make roving and yarn.2026, Robin Nistock, quotee, “Makers Space”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 13. From the entry batch
  • Falcons circling overhead have two eyes, just like hammerhead sharks roving through the ocean.2026 February 23, Carl Zimmer, “The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One. Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate…. From the entry cyclops
  • We're just a-a classic roving gang.” “Look, I know you're Starfleet.2023 October 26, Mike McMahan, “The Inner Fight” (10:28 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 9, spoken by Bouncer…. From the entry bup-bup-bup
  • In normal years, he runs a roving school for Santas and Mmes.2020 December 25, Emma Green, “The Christmas Crisis”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2020. From the entry Mrs. Claus
  • The effort’s primary material systems are vinyl esters and polyurethanes, reinforced with inexpensive chopped-glass rovings.1996, Steven Ashley, “Composite car structures pass the crash test”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 118, number 12, page 60. From the entry ester
  • He had a blue-blood background, was a real athletic, jetsetty, outdoorsy type with a roving eye.1992, Jane F. Carpineto, R.N.: The Commitment, the Heartache, and the Courage of Three Dedicated Nurses, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry jetsetty
  • His roving eye traveled around the room, and, resting upon the three guests, became inflamed.1916, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 9, in The Hunters of the Hills. From the entry roving eye
  • Nonclassrooms are being used as well as a roving teacher in order to take care of the teaching load.1965, District of Columbia Appropriations. From the entry nonclassroom
  • Little, bloodshot, close-set eyes scanned her intently, roving from time to time about the open beach for indications of the presence of others than herself.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 193. From the entry savage
  • Rude Mechs gets LARPy and invites you to be a roving audience member to navigate an intimate puzzle in the weirdest night of Dungeons & Dragons eva.2015 December 4, Kate X Messer, “Gay Place: Grandma's Revenge”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 35, number 14, Austin, T.X.: The Austin…. From the entry larpy
  • But just as the pioneer Daniel Boone abandoned domesticated life to settle ever newer territories, the gurgitator Dale Boone could not deny the imperatives of his roving metabolism.2008, Frederick Kaufman, A Short History of the American Stomach, page 94. From the entry gurgitator
  • All at once, an epiphany of sorts, his wangtooth roving through the binding caught upon a manuscript fragment which to all appearances is the missing conclusion of the Hous.1976, Bartlett Jere Whiting, Respectfully and Finally Submitted. From the entry wangtooth
  • His father had been a roving cattlebuyer in Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas who packed his family around with him and named his children after their birthplaces.1965, The Sage of Petaluma: Autobiography of a Teacher, page 184. From the entry cattlebuyer
  • Like Jimmy Breslin, a writer he was often compared to, he turned his roving eye to ordinary Southerners overlooked by most writers and mined the inexhaustible vein of human experience.2009 July 12, William Grimes, “Paul Hemphill, Chronicler of the South, Dies at 73”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Mar 2018. From the entry roving eye

Meaning of roving

  1. adjective Moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place.
  2. adjective Of the eyes or gaze, inspecting all over; not staying fixed on one subject.
  3. noun A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn or in felting.

Full definition of roving

Questions about roving in a sentence

How do you use roving in a sentence?
Roving is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.”
What is a short sentence with roving?
“His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.”
What does roving mean?
Roving means moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place.

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