• She shrugged, and then rolled off to her side, yawning and falling asleep.
• I sighed and rolled onto my stomach, lying face down on the cot.
• I rolled onto my stomach and lay there for a while.

• Nothing says humiliation like having a group of kids roll their eyes and point at you, disappointed that your lanky body will be gracing their team.
• My favourite moment in the film is when Marto says he could give up the drugs easily and his girlfriend rolls her eyes.
• The actor just rolls his eyes and makes the occasional face.

• I must have spent 10 or 15 minutes rolling on the floor in agony.
• They wound up rolling around on the floor.
• I had stopped some of my childhood fun such as running with the village boys and catching fish and rolling in the dirt and had started acting more like a young woman.

• The boat rolled and nodded gently.
• Our boarding party had to get aboard a ship rolling and heaving in large seas.
• The aircraft rolled off to the left prior to slicing nose low to 90 degrees down.

Synonyms

• All you could hear were people rolling around with laughter.
• Within a matter of minutes Scott and I are pretty much rolling around the place.
• The moment I tried it I was rolling all over the place.

Synonyms

• He hit the kerb and rolled his car.
• He began drinking heavily, and after one sodden evening at a local bar he rolled his car on the highway.
• It was really scary rolling the car like that.

• As they roll the dice, a window in the middle of the game delivers decidedly sinister messages.
• Before Leah could roll the dice an ominous knock was heard at the door.
• As he put it, he had rolled his dice and he had lost.

• If a player rolled a twelve, he collected all the coins on the board.
• The odds of rolling a six with one die are 1 in six.
• From now on, if anyone rolls a double-one or a double-six, all moves are reversed for the next turn, okay?

• The trashcan is wheeled, so the whole can be lifted and rolled, though it would require some effort.
• As I rolled the shopping cart toward the front door to exit the store, a bell went off.
• For a while, he joined the kid on the floor, rolling the toy truck across the room and watching the small boy run after it jubilantly.

Synonyms

• He rolls the window down and puts on his seat belt.
• As the police officer walked toward her, she rolled her window down and smiled politely.
• He rolled the windows down and turned the radio up.

• A single tear rolls down her cheek, and she folds in on herself.
• As the movie started, tears began to roll down my cheeks.
• Was it exploitation by going in and watching tears roll down their faces?

Synonyms

• As more time rolled on, he too became tired.
• As the years rolled by, we began to see light at the end of the tunnel.
• They discussed various life events, and learned bits about each other as the days rolled on.

Synonyms

• Increased competition has also led to superior quality products rolling off the local assembly lines.
• That's unheard of in an industry where design, engineering, and manufacturing often argue over quality problems right up until the first car rolls off the assembly line.
• Suddenly, Brazilians had money to spend - but not on the outmoded, second-rate models that had been rolling off local assembly lines.

• Sometimes the shift between panels is as subtle as fog rolling through, so that one looks closely to identify the change.
• It's like being on a wave rolling into shore; you can't fight it.
• A late-afternoon haze rolls over the hills.

Synonyms

• Sure, there are plot holes, but most of them don't become apparent until long after the end credits have rolled and the film is being analyzed in a post-screening discussion.
• It's the kind of film that sticks with you after the credits roll…
• At the end, while the credits roll, we are shown the reactions of the actors on seeing the film for the first time.

• The first plate is prepared, ink is spread on the rollers, paper is laid on the press bed and the machine rolls into action.
• The planter was rolling at 6 a.m. every day and didn't stop until 11 p.m.
• He just placed seven cameras with infrared tape and microphones in different areas of his studio and let them roll.

• If you two don't mind, it's time to roll!
• The moment Ed Lake heard the words, he thought: All right. Let's roll!
• "Come on guys, let's roll."

• That comment is inappropriate: I don't know what website you think you are on, but that is not how we roll.
• Dads aren't worried if you forget them, that is the way we roll in the Dad world.
• I told her I don't make financial decisions without consulting my husband: that's not how we roll.

• When Arthur comes in from work in his bib and brace, his sleeves are rolled up above his elbows, and I see the inside of his arms, the sinews and knotty veins.
• Just one donation can save the life of more than one patient so you can make a real difference from the very first time you roll your sleeve up to give blood.
• His sleeves were rolled up far enough to show varied tattoos.

Synonyms

• He sits hunched on his stool, rolling himself a cigarette.
• She took out a packet of tobacco, rolled herself a cigarette and lit it from the candle that was burning on the table.
• He rolled a spliff, left his house and began to walk towards Woolstone Road.

• She rolled into a ball on the floor.
• If you give an armadillo a fright, he'll stop, and drop, and roll up tight.
• Pull your knees into your chest, hugging them, and roll into a ball.

• When he spoke, his peculiar way of rolling his r's made him difficult to understand.
• Her fake accent irritated me a bit -- particularly the way she rolled the letter R.
• Croatian speakers are used to rolling the ‘r’ sound in all of the words in their Native language.

• He rolls his lines around in his mouth as if relishing their taste, and you can almost smell the bourbon and cigars on his breath when he talks.
• He rolls each syllable of ‘Lo-li-ta’ across the tip of his tongue.
• ‘She is goooorrrrrgeous, isn't she?’ he asks, rolling the words around in his mouth.

• If he could, he would have let the words roll off his tongue.
• They stuck together for years, and the names still roll off the tongue.
• The writing was excellent, with Verity's sarcastic one-liners to customers simply rolling off the tongue.

• The left panel depicts a portion of a roll of shiny steel being formed at a factory.
• It looked like rolls of thick sausage on their stomachs.
• Protruding out the open sides were thick rolls of flesh that undulated like two well-fed seals.

• Casual classics such as fried clams, fish and chips and lobster rolls are transformed into elegant fare.
• The processing plant now produces several types of dough and bread products, including its latest addition: a frozen cinnamon roll that can be microwaved.
• The little bistro offers excellent breakfasts of fluffy scrambled eggs, warm cinnamon rolls, and frothy lattes.

• He pulled a huge roll of fifties and twenties from his pocket.
• In his pocket was a roll of notes, his pay-off for the night's work.
• He pulls a roll of notes from his back pocket and peels off a tenner.

Synonyms

• As part of our warm up, we were doing tumbles and on one of them (a reverse handstand into a roll) I stupidly hit my own face with my knee.
• She throws herself into a roll and ends up with legs and feet at all angles.
• She sees stars wheel overhead, the world tumbling around her, and she turns her tumble into a roll.

• He was flying alone and performing rolls in a 1940s vintage plane when its wing touched the ground, causing the crash.
• If you perform the roll on takeoff well, you'll still see some of Runway 10 ahead of you.

• The chassis displays impressive levels of composure and minimal roll through the turns.
• The system can directly measure the roll of the vehicle frame as it passes over such terrain.
• At every roll of the boat the water would rush in.

Synonyms

• Learn how to play a six stroke roll on the drums in this free video music lesson.
• Remember, you are not limited to playing a roll on the snare drum!

• For dairy, which employed nearly 137,000 people three years ago, employment rolls are expected to fall 9.3 percent in the next seven years.
• She said she would support the proposal because of concern about the falling school rolls.
• This is not a case of falling school rolls and a declining area.

• They also occur for his father, John Ashby, in a roll dated c.1480-1500.
• Illuminated manuscripts are handwritten books or rolls with painted decoration and illustration.