Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
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Examples for "range "
1 The market has been range - bound since late last week over political worries.
2 Sometimes, a range of products comes along at exactly the right time.
3 Yet US democracy is within Mr Trump's striking range at all times.
4 This is the result of a range of factors, including climate change.
5 They range from utility, oil and manufacturing companies to independent power producers.
1 The election result has cast doubt on popular support for that project.
2 Events surrounding CervicalCheck continue to cast a shadow over the health service.
3 Animal prints: we think they're best left to cast members of Eastenders.
4 The withdrawal agreement must give legal effect to that ' cast iron' guarantee.
5 Clive Fugill said Covid-19 cast doubt on whether that legacy could continue.
1 A free inflight Wi-Fi service is set to roll out this year.
2 He may, indeed, require divine help to roll aside this particular stone.
3 He thought the state was going to roll over on this case.
4 However, the ministry said those roll numbers were what it would expect.
5 Ms Bennett said the shared equity scheme should roll out next year.
1 However, industry sources said that the deadline may drift into early July.
2 Get-togethers between friends often naturally drift toward other activities as interests change.
3 The intercontinental drift of consumer culture is far from a simple back-and-forth.
4 People are exposed through spray drift , residues on food and water contamination.
5 Type B change only by the more gradual process of antigenic drift .
1 Workers no longer tramp or cycle home but drive warm, smart cars.
2 Presently the heavy tramp of the patrol was heard in the street.
3 The General rose, and once more his military tramp shook the gallery.
4 At this instant the tramp of horses was heard in the courtyard.
5 He heard the tramp of a million feet in the great cities.
1 Go out on the seas; climb the mountains; wander through the valleys.
2 Left to wander its own way, it tends to lead into silliness.
3 Small animals wander around the camp, while larger ones can be heard.
4 He merely meant to wander the halls and perhaps clear his mind.
5 He had no reason to wander ; perhaps that was the reason why.
1 The swan was injured following the recent oil spillage in Bray Harbour.
2 The question is, where would the swan go on the knight's journey?'
3 The swan feathers were still in her box; I had recently looked.
4 His prize was just dancing on the water, light as a swan .
5 The swan ship that delivered Slayer should serve my needs well enough.
1 Dublin Corporation's new regulations to control stray horses came into effect yesterday.
2 He included the lines, Among your earthiest words the angels stray .
3 He was offering to forget the stray , let him come or go.
4 Record how long the chant was able to fend off stray thoughts.
5 There are hundreds of stray cats among the holy sites in Jerusalem.
1 Sable used to roam the Limpopo province in large numbers, years ago.
2 That is easy to understand - learning to roam productively takes time.
3 It's a great fear removed they no longer roam outside our gates.
4 Certainly Selena didn't roam the house taking inventory of her various knickknacks.
5 Ptolemy liked to stare out there and let his thoughts roam free.
1 I have a vagabond streak in my blood and it's in evidence.
2 Beverly laughed with keen enjoyment over the discomfiture of the shame-faced vagabond .
3 He stuck his hands in his pockets, and felt vagabond - like and reckless.
4 You indulge in a gesture of annoyance, and call me a vagabond .
5 Every kind of restraint was naturally intolerable to such a vagabond nature.
1 Art3mis: As you may recall, I tend to ramble in real time.
2 Otherwise the picture covers familiar ground and tends to ramble somewhat repetitively.
3 Finding little else of interest in the paper, I continued my ramble .
4 We had a delightful ramble through the valley, and over the hills.
5 It is my holiday time, and I ramble on through the summer.
1 It roves the locality, returning, swallow-like, to the close-fitting hollow of the root.
2 Thou art he who roves among all the summits of that great mountain.
3 He roves through the universe as Sesha, filled with great joy.
4 My eye roves , for relief, to those shelves where the later annals are.
5 We built a rover, so unless the rover roves we haven't accomplished anything.
6 Is not she the enemy of him who roves for plunder?
7 She said, The drone maid said exactly the same thing about the London roves .
8 The eye roves over this vast domain in unwonted freedom.
9 Vampires, even roves like the potentate, would do almost anything to protect a queen.
10 Freed from all bonds he roves over the world.
11 His great white eyeball never roves to anybody's in the dock, nor theirs to his.
12 It roves around a dimly lit, dark wood library.
13 Now, this thing with the roves , how long has it been going on would you say?
14 Our mistrust of loners and roves is not only custom, it is based on this fact.
15 No living creature that roves the surface of our earth moves faster than a healthy ostrich.
16 To find out where ze roves are gone.
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About this term rove Verb
Indicative · Present · Third