They're made to make a lot of money and to get teenagers in a kind of experience, a roller coaster ride.
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My seven-year-old son still can't go on all the roller coasters he wants, because he is a few inches too short.
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His cadence is a steady beat rather than a roller coaster, and his words sparing and simple.
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Other times a chorus on roller skates sings about a toy train set.
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Well, that time has now come thanks to Fish on Wheels—a roller aquarium that lets fish drive.
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Just as the two officers neared the barn the door was seen to slide on its roller.
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Roller stanched, with frozen snow and some tow, the only dangerous wound he had, and managed to reach his home.
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Sunny Boy liked to go with Harriet, and he hurried indoors to get his hat and roller skates.
Sunny Boy in the Country|Ramy Allison White
This harrow is as good as a roller in fining and smoothing the surface soil.
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She pulled herself together as an old ship rights itself after a roller's stinging blow.
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British Dictionary definitions for roller
roller
/ (ˈrəʊlə) /
noun
a cylinder having an absorbent surface and a handle, used for spreading paint
Also called: garden rollera heavy cast-iron cylinder or pair of cylinders on an axle to which a handle is attached; used for flattening lawns
a long heavy wave of the sea, advancing towards the shoreCompare breaker 1 (def. 2)
a hardened cylinder of precision-ground steel that forms one of the rolling components of a roller bearing or of a linked driving chain
a cylinder fitted on pivots, used to enable heavy objects to be easily moved; castor
printinga cylinder, usually of hard rubber, used to ink a forme or plate before impression
a cylindrical tube or barrel onto which material is rolled for transport or storage
any of various other cylindrical devices that rotate about a cylinder, used for any of various purposes
a small cylinder, esp one that is heated, onto which a woman's hair may be rolled to make it curl
meda bandage consisting of a long strip of muslin or cheesecloth rolled tightly into a cylindrical form before application
a band fastened around a horse's belly to keep a blanket in position
any of various Old World birds of the family Coraciidae, such as Coracias garrulus (European roller), that have a blue, green, and brown plumage, a slightly hooked bill, and an erratic flight: order Coraciiformes (kingfishers, etc)
(often capital)a variety of tumbler pigeon that performs characteristic backward somersaults in flight
a breed of canary that has a soft trilling song in which the notes are run together
a person or thing that rolls
Australiana man who rolls and trims fleeces after shearing