Thesaurus results for ROLLER

roller

noun

Definition of roller

as in ground swell

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Recent Examples of roller With two outs, Junior Caminero hit a slow roller on a 1-2 slider that third baseman Encarnacion-Strand could not field cleanly for a run-scoring infield single. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026 Aviation pro Andres Celis says large roller bags that don’t fit properly in overhead bins can create unnecessary headaches during boarding as crew members try to find a place for them. — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2026 Other sports at the event include tennis, pickleball, rugby, Australian football, fishing, ultimate frisbee, disc golf, women's football, e-sports, roller skating and cricket. — Mia Hilkowitz, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2026 The roller rotates constantly and gets rinsed with clean water, so the part touching the car always stays clean. — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 13 Aug. 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

Flores experienced one of the country’s deadliest disasters in 1992, when an earthquake and ensuing tsunami killed about 2,500 people.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Basarnas/Handout/Anadolu/Getty For many residents, the disaster revived painful memories of a powerful earthquake and tsunami that struck Flores in 1992, killing about 2,500 people.

— CBS News, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of tsunami

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