How to Use roving in a Sentence

roving

adjective
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  • Your job as a child is to be roving eyes and roving hands.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 June 2018
  • Take a seat at the bar or let one of the roving servers bring you a wine selection to any of the chef counters.
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 24 July 2019
  • What’s the secret to being a roving artist at one of L.A.’s hottest new restaurants?
    — David Hochman, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • There are three ramp agents per flight, with one roving ramp agent to help during busy times.
    — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2018
  • This crew has played in venues from opera houses to living rooms to a roving circus tent.
    — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 11 May 2017
  • But don't expect these to be the same as their roving counterparts.
    — Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, many roving reporters thrust their mikes into the faces of people.
    — Mitali Mukherjee, Quartz, 19 May 2022
  • Today, activists see blockadia not as one place but more of a roving space of protest.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
  • For the next year, my life devolved into a roving crisis.
    — Winston Ross, Longreads, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Front and center, rather than at the distant end of a roving telephoto lens.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
  • In 2008, he was asked to take part in the Brooklyn Flea but guessed that the roving flea market wouldn’t be a suitable showcase for his fine art.
    — Michael Clerizo, WSJ, 5 June 2018
  • Bunk has four other Portland-area shops, a roving food truck and a kiosk at the Moda Center.
    — OregonLive.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Nearby, a fleet of 6-foot-tall roving robot shelves zipped around behind a chain-link fence.
    — Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The see-thru aviator isn’t just for Justin Bieber and his roving band of hypepriests.
    — Sam Schube, GQ, 20 Aug. 2017
  • The drinks are simple (get a straight shot) and there's no food save for toasted peanuts and fava beans sold from a roving snack vendor.
    — Scarlett Lindeman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Fuller said of Miller, a roving linebacker with an affinity for sacks.
    — Brent Zwerneman, ExpressNews.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The court was divided in two sections, and the players had to stay in their section except for the roving center.
    — Donna Reiner, azcentral, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Twenty-five years ago, this kind of roving, specialized team was rare.
    — Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Drinks, which are made on a roving antique bar cart, include sake riffs on the martini and the Cosmopolitan, as well as straight sake and beer.
    — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Looking to create a roving, tiny office or a mobile store?
    — Megan Barber, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Skeptics of Bevin's roving prayer group plan included Micheshia Norment, the mother of a 7-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet last month.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 2 June 2017
  • The roving engines would not be connected to any station; they would be deployed in busy areas at busy times.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Yes, the roving sea dogs could still seize the vessels themselves, but top-flight buccaneerologists say that...
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Samples, 25, had been something of a roving assistant in his first season at SMU.
    — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Christopher Ketcham is a roving correspondent in the American West working on a book about the public lands and last wild places.
    — National Geographic, 19 May 2017
  • The laborers who worked for the roving construction crew were familiar with the style that Trump used at his properties.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Mr. Piersall later became a roving minor-league outfield coach for the Chicago Cubs and was the host of a long-running sports radio talk show in Chicago.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 5 June 2017
  • At sixty-seven, the former Talking Heads front man is still letting his roving mind guide him to uncharted places.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The arrival of the anarchists—a roving band of hard-left protesters—was emblematic of that effort.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Yates, a roving guard, had access to the whole ATF facility and soon became the focus of the investigation.
    — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2019

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