To rotate or cause to rotate

Usage examples of rolling.

Jessy agreed absently while her gaze took in the broad expanse of plains before them, rugged and rolling into forever.

Lead truck following Aby, rolling down to the fatal turn, where the woods came near the road.

The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.

In front of the advancing British there lay a rolling hill, topped by a further one.

It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less.

Across the road, beyond the shuttered se afront kiosks, the sky was a dirty grey mass of rolling clouds, imitating the swell and froth of the sea.

He had one hand below him and managed to push the hatch back as they descended, Avelyn rolling right over the hatchway, the deceivingly agile powrie hopping to its feet atop the now-closed portal.

After that, the airman, with a slightly rolling gait, quickly descended the stairs and without looking back strode down the asphalted embankment past the long hospital building.

In an interview with Rolling Stone in January 1970, four months after he had left the group, John still worded his interviews to give the impression that the group still existed: RITCHIE YORKE: When you are about to record a new Beatles album, do you feel very excited about it?

He told Rolling Stone: It was always understood that the album would be like nothing the Beatles had done before.

If you camp on this prominence, in the alpenglow the distant range looks like the side of a different world, rolling slowly up into the sky.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

On very stormy days the entire apse seemed to awake and to grumble under the noise of the rain as it beat against the leaden tiles of the roof, running off by the gutters of the cornices and rolling from story to story with the clamour of an overflowing torrent.

After panting awhile, he arose again and finished by rolling the stone end-over-end toward its destination.

A moment later I heard a noise like ten dog-fights rolled into one, and rushing out I found my friend rolling on the ground with his arms round the workman who was helping to stack my artesian tubing.