How to Use rollicking in a Sentence

rollicking

adjective
  • We had a rollicking good time.
  • This latest trade is just the next shocker in the rollicking fun of this summer.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 12 July 2019
  • If not, the end of a rollicking, unpredictable season will be at hand.
    — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 20 May 2017
  • His brother Earl Long was renowned for his rollicking stump speeches.
    — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • Barnett, who was raised in Tasmania, is steeped in garage grunge and rollicking alt-rock.
    — Rebecca Haithcoat, GQ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • To be fair, many in the audience last weekend appeared to be having a rollicking good time.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Murphy then appeared on stage to a rollicking standing ovation and made his way to his place at the dais toward the back of the room.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Zolak is best known for his rollicking sense of humor, his loyalty to his old team and his passionate radio calls.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The vibe of your ride is up to you — choose between a rollicking group ride or a romantic private ride, and a daytime ride or a sunset ride.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • China's new equity exchange for tech companies got off to rollicking start this week.
    — Fortune, 24 July 2019
  • Those self-aware lyrics are paired with breezy melody and a gently rollicking rhythm, making this feel like a freewheeling summertime favorite.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But would a rollicking rally, such as the one held for Strange ahead of his loss to Moore in 2017, do much good?
    — al, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The second confab has an emphasis on the rollicking world of venture capital.
    — Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Corkins here channels and conveys that back story, while nevertheless leading his merry band of pranksters in a rollicking good time.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2017
  • The unexpected result was that the new, straighter route allowed the police to speed the parade a bit more quickly than the rollicking krewe was used to.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The Warriors are fully healthy and rollicking teams, having stormed through the West with a 12-0 record.
    — Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 25 May 2017
  • That was the unexpected pleasure of James Gunn’s first Guardians film, a vivid and rollicking space opera-lite.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 25 Apr. 2017
  • What ensues is a rollicking journey through the world of Indian mythology.
    — Gwenda Bond, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Half the fun of zipping through the rollicking family drama of Crazy Rich Asians is the fashion.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
  • If this sounds a bit heady for a rollicking tragicomedy in which pratfalls and death throes are tumbled together, that is part of the play’s unusual scheme.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • This is the Tony Award-winning musical about King Arthur and his rollicking round table.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
  • For the most rollicking times, sit in the Pavilions (the outfield), or the Top Deck, where the game is less important than the beach balls and the beer.
    — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 1 May 2017
  • And indeed, Debbie uses what could be a handicap to her advantage in a rollicking shoplifting spree at Bergdorf’s.
    — Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 7 June 2018
  • With Louisiana flair, Creole Stomp rolls out a rollicking brand of Cajun sounds.
    — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The rest of the episode is a rollicking ride of each of their hazy perspectives and recollections, with a race to find witnesses who will give them accounts of what really happened that night.
    — Cady Lang, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Molina jumped on Kimbrel’s first pitch for his ninth homer, touching off a rollicking celebration in the Cardinals’ dugout.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Among the most distinctive of our native gulls, the laughing gull is well named; its rollicking call is as evocative of the summer beach season as the smell of Coppertone and salt air.
    — Dave Taft, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • The late Pokey Allen’s teams played a rollicking brand of football and projected a sense of fun that invited fan participation.
    — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Alamo Drafthouse is giving it the movie party treatment, complete with props and surprises to bring the rollicking action onscreen to vivid life inside the theater.
    — Hunter Johnson, Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Laura Jane Grace and rock goddess Joan Jett to tackle the ballad, turning it into a rollicking backyard jam.
    — Andrew Daniels, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2017

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