How to Use roving in a Sentence
roving
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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
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This crew has played in venues from opera houses to living rooms to a roving circus tent.
—Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 11 May 2017
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But don't expect these to be the same as their roving counterparts.
—Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2019
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Today, activists see blockadia not as one place but more of a roving space of protest.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
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Twenty-five years ago, this kind of roving, specialized team was rare.
—Time, 14 Sep. 2017
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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
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Front and center, rather than at the distant end of a roving telephoto lens.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
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Fuller said of Miller, a roving linebacker with an affinity for sacks.
—Brent Zwerneman, ExpressNews.com, 7 Apr. 2020
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Nearby, a fleet of 6-foot-tall roving robot shelves zipped around behind a chain-link fence.
—Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2019
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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
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Entrants will be judged by a roving panel of festival staff and volunteers.
—oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2020
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The see-thru aviator isn’t just for Justin Bieber and his roving band of hypepriests.
—Sam Schube, GQ, 20 Aug. 2017
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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
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What if a roving band of mutant proletarians suddenly shows up at the front door?
—John Carl Baker, New Republic, 14 July 2017
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Bunk has four other Portland-area shops, a roving food truck and a kiosk at the Moda Center.
—OregonLive.com, 16 Jan. 2018
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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
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Last week, gunmen on water scooters also shot at a roving vendor on a beach in Cancun's hotel zone.
—Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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Burke has enjoyed coaching dynamic roving safety Reshad Jones, who is one of the league’s best backside blitzers.
—Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2018
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Samples, 25, had been something of a roving assistant in his first season at SMU.
—Sam Blum, Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2020
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Jerry Boylan failed to have a roving night watch of the boat, did not conduct sufficient fire drills and did not conduct sufficient training of the crewmembers.
—Lauren Hernández, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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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The breadth of the collection offers a window into the roving mind of its proprietor, Karl Lagerfeld, who sits at the head of a table in an immaculate Dior Homme suit.
—Erik Maza, Town & Country, 3 Jan. 2019
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