How to Use roving in a Sentence

roving

adjective
  • 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
  • This crew has played in venues from opera houses to living rooms to a roving circus tent.
    — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 11 May 2017
  • Today, activists see blockadia not as one place but more of a roving space of protest.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Front and center, rather than at the distant end of a roving telephoto lens.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Nearby, a fleet of 6-foot-tall roving robot shelves zipped around behind a chain-link fence.
    — Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Entrants will be judged by a roving panel of festival staff and volunteers.
    — oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2020
  • What if a roving band of mutant proletarians suddenly shows up at the front door?
    — John Carl Baker, New Republic, 14 July 2017
  • Bunk has four other Portland-area shops, a roving food truck and a kiosk at the Moda Center.
    — OregonLive.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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