How to Use rove in a Sentence

rove

verb
  • Deano emerged and watched the bears rove around the gas station.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Feral cats and roving hounds have been known to hunt them down.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Liam, meanwhile, is told to assemble an elite gang of warriors and rove around the globe.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The two-seater can also be had wearing all-terrain tires for roving through mud or over rocks.
    — New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Chief Theetge's roving task force has been on the streets for about a month, reporting dozens of arrests.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Next year or the year after, infielders may not be allowed to rove into the outfield on shifts.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 5 July 2021
  • Jim Dines, her owner, who had been roving fore and aft all day, finally had a moment to talk.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • As cameras roved around the stadium, women popped their booties, danced with friends and vied for a spot in an onstage twerk-off.
    — Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The buffet, and roving carts of food from servers, feature over 100 options.
    — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2023
  • For roving capital, laws are selected and combined à la carte.
    — Quinn Slobodian, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Bands of fugitives, landless laborers, and tax evaders rove the Judean wilderness.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
  • DeChambeau was trailed the entire round by a roving hoard (and a security guard.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
  • So does Soderbergh’s camera, which begins sniffing and roving about the space like a dog unleashed.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Our reporters and photographers were roving in and around the convention center to take it all in.
    — Hannah Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • The demands included that law enforcement no longer be masked and that roving patrols be ended.
    — Tara Suter, The Hill, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Breaks in the clouds created roving patches of sunlight that lit up the frosty ground and cast long shadows from the towering pine trees.
    — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Many of the entrepreneurs running such businesses rove from mine to mine, moving on when the minerals dry up or rebels march into town.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Mobile unit managed by a local partner to be named that will rove East Central Ohio.
    — Laura Mazade, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2021
  • This artsy coastal town is known for white sand beaches, roving trolleys, pink hotels, and a love for local businesses.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Felt on a thin piece of roving in a different color if desired (to make the blue swirls on Neptune, for instance).
    — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
  • New this year are roving carolers, hot chocolate and popcorn in Dupont Circle park.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Interfacing with a screen involved arms, hands, and fingers all in motion on clacking keyboards and roving mice.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Of course, there will also be seafood dishes for purchase at food trucks, stations and kiosks, plus a kids’ zone, roving characters and vendors.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But even then, the visitors will ignore the warnings from the flags and roving lifeguard patrols who will alert them about staying out of the water.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 15 July 2023
  • At Lam Kwong Deli & Market, dim sum is served all day — without the roving carts or hot tea service.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 14 Mar. 2025
  • That’s when the days get a little longer, and the water begins to heat up and stay that way, goading bass to start roving into the shallow and move up onto beds.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Every day, eight vans rove the city, each with an emergency medical responder and a mental health clinician on board.
    — Meg Anderson, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The roving outdoor Fête de la Musique last Sunday drew half a million revelers.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Free buses become roving homeless shelters.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
  • After more than six years of exploring the Red Planet, the Mars rover Spirit will rove no more.
    — Aline Reynolds, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2010

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