: an act or instance of wandering
rove
3 of 5past tense and past participle of reeve
roved; roving
: to join (textile fibers) with a slight twist and draw out into roving
Examples of rove in a Sentence
Verb (1)
buffalo roving over the vast plains
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Don’t miss roving street musicians playing diatonic accordions and shaking panderos (tambourines) to perform trikitixa music.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 8 May 2025
Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
At the very beginning of the film, the house is introduced in a single shot that peers through windows, roves from room to room, and heads downstairs.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
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Verb
The camera moves, shooting her from this angle and that, and occasionally roving over various covers of Christie’s books.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Don’t miss roving street musicians playing diatonic accordions and shaking panderos (tambourines) to perform trikitixa music.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 8 May 2025
Noun
Despite these glimpses, though, the narrative roves and alights rather than burrowing.
—Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
At the very beginning of the film, the house is introduced in a single shot that peers through windows, roves from room to room, and heads downstairs.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rove
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“Rove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rove. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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