roll down
phrasal verb
rolled down; rolling down; rolls down
1
: to move (something) down especially by turning a handle
She rolled down the car window.
2
: to unfold the edge of (something, such as a shirt sleeve or pants leg) to make it longer
He rolled down his sleeves.
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Meanwhile, while Thompson clung to his blankets in the cold, two cars pulled up and rolled down their windows to hand him a few dollars.
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Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
There were also the Williams signature highly creative steamer trunks rolled down the luxury runway, recalling logistics workers at any of the e-comm distribution centers in the US whose owners are usually members of a billionaire's boys club themselves.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
In the gravedigger scene, the skull of the jester Yorick isn’t handed to Hamlet but rolled down to him.
—Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
At around the time the break-in occurred, store owners added several more locks to the roll down gate and front door, Ethi, 29, recalled.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
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Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
There were also the Williams signature highly creative steamer trunks rolled down the luxury runway, recalling logistics workers at any of the e-comm distribution centers in the US whose owners are usually members of a billionaire's boys club themselves.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
In the gravedigger scene, the skull of the jester Yorick isn’t handed to Hamlet but rolled down to him.
—Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
At around the time the break-in occurred, store owners added several more locks to the roll down gate and front door, Ethi, 29, recalled.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for roll down
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“Roll down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/roll%20down. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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