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- verb Present participle of
roave .
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Examples
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Frankly, I have a hard time believing that there is a roaving band of 11-year-olds that are habitually running up to unsuspecting diners and swearing at them, night after night.
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Frankly, I have a hard time believing that there is a roaving band of 11-year-olds that are habitually running up to unsuspecting diners and swearing at them, night after night.
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In one of those great moments of timing, the fate of Iowa State men's basketball coach and roaving party animal, Larry Eustachy, will likely appeal his firing today.
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Time to send up the feared Drones over Iraq about now, and keep them roaving the border of Afghanistan/Pakistan till all those suicidal foreign fighters are gone to.
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There were minor league roaving and coordinator jobs that seemed attractive because they would allow him to spend time with his family.
Kitsap Sun Stories 2010
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There were minor league roaving and coordinator jobs that seemed attractive because they would allow him to spend time with his family.
Kitsap Sun Stories 2010
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Think roaving blackouts in the summer are bad now, wait till everyone gets home turns on the
Wired Top Stories 2010
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The great swamp and lake Oaquaphenogaw is said to be its source, which is about one hundred miles by land North of this place, which would give the river a course of near two hundred miles from its source to the sea, to follow its meanders; as in general our rivers, that run any considerable distance through the country to the sea, by their windings and roaving about to find a passage through the ridges and heights, at least double their distance.
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