How do you use Roving in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like wandering or mobile, plus the exact meaning.
Roving meaning
- Moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place.
- Of the eyes or gaze, inspecting all over; not staying fixed on one subject.
Synonyms of Roving
Using Roving
- The main meaning on this page is: Moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place. | Of the eyes or gaze, inspecting all over; not staying fixed on one subject.
- Useful related words include: wandering, mobile, nomadic, peregrine.
- Possible Dutch translations are: zwervend, loensend.
- In the example corpus, roving often appears in combinations such as: as roving, and roving, roving vehicle.
Context around Roving
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Roving
- In this selection, "roving" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fleeing, fiberglass, lively, banker, sheriffs and traders stand out and add context to how "roving" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a lively roving commentator and and a roving ice cream. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "roving" sits close to words such as abolitionist, accomplishing and airframe, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with roving
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Our roving carpet reporter Lindsey Bahr will be seated in the audience for the ceremony. (15 words)
Backstage: A roving cameraman caught up with Angelina Love and Velvet Sky celebrating their reunion. (15 words)
Residents in Alvin or Cross could be the next to reap the benefits of the roving classroom. (17 words)
The Pars full-back initially shaped up to launch a missile into the box and, as such, the Terrors set-up to defend that — only for roving centre-back Ewan Otoo to dash into acres of space (below) and create a two-on-one against Louis Moult. (47 words)
For a Roving Banker First4 the player selects one, two or three runners they believe will definitely finish 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th, and up to three selections as Roving Banker(s) with other runners to fill the remaining place(s). (41 words)
Mobile Health Clinics (MHCs) have proved to be a popular mode of healthcare in recent years, and were particularly effective during the pandemic – when Covid-19 roving vans travelled around carrying out vaccinations in areas where uptake was low. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
For a Roving Banker First4 the player selects one, two or three runners they believe will definitely finish 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th, and up to three selections as Roving Banker(s) with other runners to fill the remaining place(s).
Although not required for the block party, anyone without a button risks being thrown into the hoosegow by roving sheriffs.
Artisanal cobalt is bought on-site from the miners by roving traders, some former miners who’ve amassed enough capital to pay for a motorcycle or pickup, along with the bribes and permits necessary to pass through checkpoints.
Idaho Falls Police Officers will be roving along the parade route and in the surrounding area on bike and on foot.
Many parents sell and shop at roving consignment sales like Just Between Friends, both nationwide chains of secondhand children’s stores.
Our roving carpet reporter Lindsey Bahr will be seated in the audience for the ceremony.
People fleeing roving death squads like what my best friend's family did in El Salvador in the 80s.
Residents in Alvin or Cross could be the next to reap the benefits of the roving classroom.
The Fiberglass Roving report analyses various critical constraints, such as item price, production capacity, profit & loss statistics, and global market-influencing transportation & delivery channels.
The Pars full-back initially shaped up to launch a missile into the box and, as such, the Terrors set-up to defend that — only for roving centre-back Ewan Otoo to dash into acres of space (below) and create a two-on-one against Louis Moult.
There will be a cocktail bar and food vans with roving entertainment from 5pm-7pm and a stage spectacular from 7pm-8pm to leave you spellbound.
To make matters worse, panic buttons on the buses are often not operating and riders see the few security guards on staff as about as powerful as roving mall cops.
We want to be a ‘roving concern’ where we can show up and get people out and talking.
And outside Trump's rally, the Haley campaign had a roving mobile billboard that sought to highlight Trump's age and raise questions about his mental acuity.
Backstage: A roving cameraman caught up with Angelina Love and Velvet Sky celebrating their reunion.
Borderlands also works with other local artists such as Early Snows Pottery, which creates garlic and soap dishes, and North of 48 Custom Woodworking, which makes spindles and roving bumps for hand-spinners.
Mobile Health Clinics (MHCs) have proved to be a popular mode of healthcare in recent years, and were particularly effective during the pandemic – when Covid-19 roving vans travelled around carrying out vaccinations in areas where uptake was low.
New options this year include soup dumplings from Dumpling House, Chili Crunch Yakisoba at Noodle Nirvana, and a roving ice cream cart selling a house-made take on the Choco Taco.
Roving Impartial Reporter photographer John McVitty snapped this dramatic image of sheep searching for grazing, out in some lightly snow-covered fields by the Border between Fermanagh and Tyrone.
What they’re probably not going to expect is rapper Snoop Dogg as a lively roving commentator.
Common combinations with roving
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as roving 8×
- and roving 8×
- roving vehicle 7×
- lunar roving 6×
- by roving 6×
- the roving 6×
- roving bands 4×
- for roving 3×
- roving banker 3×
- our roving 3×