Roving is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ROVING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of roving
• roves collectively.
• The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
• A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
• The act of one who roves or wanders.
• travelling about without any clear destination
ADJECTIVE:
• wandering
• migratory
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to roam
• a roll of textile fibers

Words related to ROVING

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Words that contain ROVING

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How to use ROVING in a sentence

• He took immediately to roving the toe of his shoe in and out among the gravel.
• But he was of a roving, adventurous disposition, and soon went back to fight among his own people, the Persians.
• But he was always listening, and his eyes were ever roving.
• His eyes, roving wildly, wandered over the white, silent mass of faces, and his glance picked out and lingered for a moment on the big-shouldered figure of Drew, erect in his box.
• The roving life and its picturesque episodes, with the earnest conviction which inspired him, made the summer and autumn exciting and pleasant.
• This hint that there might be more than mere matter in those surroundings set his eyes to roving.
• No human being came their way, nor wild thing, save roving murderers on pillage bent.
• Another, still called the Citadel, was that in which they took refuge from the enemy, especially from the roving bands of armed men who made common cause with England.
• Jarmerik, on his way back from roving, chanced to intercept their fleet, and destroyed it, a deed which added honour to his roll of conquests.
• Adrianna and Cordelia stared with roving eyes about the room, then at each other as if comparing notes on terror.
• Ye continue roving with delight in the valley of your corrupt desires.
• Her hair was bright as the beaten gold, Her lips as coral red, Her roving eyes were blue and bold, And her heart with pride was fed.
• It is doubtful whether any abstract moral appeal could have reached such a roving nature.
• None but wild beasts and the roving Indians that hunt them live there.
• Idle, visionary, loose in conduct, good-natured, fond of roving.
• He noted that while Taggart talked his eyes kept roving around the clearing as though in search of something.
• But he was emphatically not of that sort, so continued to lead his disreputable, roving life for a period of ten years.
• Their constantly roving life brought them in contact with the myths of many nations.
• After a roving existence of years, during which he lived in Vienna, Munich, Prague and London, he made a settled home in Dresden.
• The interrupted one waits, no longer with a roving eye, but with something almost of dignity, as though he were fulfilling ritual.
• She was drawing on her gloves, her eyes, like his, roving over the crowd.
• Grenville himself was a wild and roving blade, no great commander, but an adventurer of the most daring kind by land or sea.
• Accustomed from my infancy to the roving life of the troupe I was with, I neither knew nor dreamed of any other.
• He is naturally roving and restless, which, however, may be owing to his habit of moving from place to place in search of good hunting grounds.
• Simon Girty stood beside them, his hard, keen, roving eyes on the scene.
• Her roving eagerness was at all times shaded with shyness, reserve, repression.
• Roving about from place to place, he was satisfied nowhere long.
• For the roving eyes were terrible to look into, black pools of misery, and the mouth was distended and the stumbling feet did not turn aside for scrub-brush or rock.
• I had no time to make inquiries, for my roving eye caught Frank Morton in the doorway, and evidently he wanted to attract my attention.
• But a wish to be with the multitude, who were roving among the fountains, cut short my visit to the trianons.

Similar words containing ROV without suffix ing

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