How to Use roly-poly in a Sentence

roly-poly

adjective
  • This roly-poly robot will be holding thousands of small drones, or dandelion drones, within.
    Tom Brown, Space.com, 25 May 2026
  • Regardless of what they’re called, most people know exactly what an armadillo looks like, with its roly-poly armored form and weird shuffling walk.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
  • Regardless of what they’re called, most people know exactly what an armadillo looks like, with its roly-poly armored form and weird shuffling walk.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 July 2025
  • Something, oh, like a roly-poly, 73-year-old manager tumbling ass over teakettle, as the old-timers say, when a bat thrown by Vladimir Guerrero clipped his left hip.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 13 July 2026
  • The roly-poly robot named after a mythological many-eyed giant has depth-sensing cameras attached to 20 telescoping legs that radiate from a central core.
    Allen Breed, Fortune, 28 May 2026

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