Thesaurus results for ROLLER

roller

noun

Definition of roller

as in ground swell

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Recent Examples of roller My suite, 8081, on the port side of deck eight, had a Technogym yoga mat and a foam roller waiting for me. — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026 Following the consolidation, the production capacity for Inpro’s shower curtains, cubicle curtains and roller shades was expected to increase, the company’s 2024 statement said. — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026 The community resource includes a wide array of amenities, including hiking trails, pickleball courts, picnic areas, a roller hockey facility and tennis courts. — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026 Shanghai Electric also displayed several core robotic components, including a planetary roller screw that the company says can handle more than three times the load of conventional ball screws. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for roller

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Noun

The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.

— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
Tanks and soldiers with riffles have lined the streets of the Paraguayan capital all week.

— Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025

Definition of riffle

Noun

In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.

— Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.

— Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019

Definition of comber

Noun

Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.

— Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025

Definition of wavelet

Noun

Knopf humbly acknowledges Visit Orlando and Orlando Health’s role in lifting our community’s boats with a veritable tidal wave of funding, as well as the diners who participate.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
Though Flock has its cameras in over 5,000 US cities as of July 2026, the rise in rejections at the municipal level comes amidst a tidal wave of outrage around issues of privacy and civil rights.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of tidal wave

Noun

And that may prove a deal breaker, said David Frum in The Atlantic.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 9 Aug. 2026
Because Malawi and Zambia also earned positive results against Egypt, but each lost one match amongst themselves, the tie-breaker then went to head-to-head goal difference.

— Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of breaker

Noun

Colombia’s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management, citing information from the country’s maritime authority, said the earthquake did not pose a tsunami threat to Colombia’s Pacific coast.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2026
The tsunami of public and private debt as well as the competition for investor demand have put upward pressure on yields, which adds to interest costs and the federal deficit.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of tsunami

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