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Example sentences for "roam"

Lexicographically close words:
roadsteads; roadster; roadsters; roadway; roadways; roamed; roaming; roams; roan; roans
  1. Tis a symbol of Dagon which the Syrian shepherds wear about their necks when they roam the hills by night.

  2. In her two long years of absence Semiramis had oft'times dreamed of Ascalon, longing to roam its hills once more or to swim in its cool, green lake; yet now it all seemed strangely poor and small.

  3. The public could roam about the place just as it pleased, and did so, and there did not seem to be anything to prevent any one from playing the game on this course.

  4. I'll turn you loose in a Blue-grass pasture, and you can roam as you please within its limits.

  5. I'd just roam through the woods for a week and disturb nothing.

  6. There yet are two things in my destiny,-- A world to roam through and a home with thee.

  7. Many of them are permitted to roam with freedom, not only in every portion of the city, but in the country around, thus terrifying timid citizens with their presence, causing them to change their habitations to the town for protection.

  8. Swartz had begun to outspan the horses, knee-haltering each so that they would not roam too far.

  9. She had got another nurse-boy for the baby and so had a little liberty in which to roam about Beira, looking at the coolie curio-shops, and riding on the trollies that ran up and down the town.

  10. In vain I wander through the distant forests strange, In vain I roam at will By foreign glade and hill, For, ah!

  11. Eirinn, I would break The tower of my soul's initiate pride For a grey field and a star-haunted lake, And those wet winds that roam the country side.

  12. O gentle, gentle gipsies, That roam the wide world through, Because I hate my crown and state O let me come with you.

  13. O gentle, gentle gipsies, That roam the wide world through, Although I praise your wandering ways, I dare not come with you.

  14. You wash in water running warm Through basins all of gold; The streams where we roam have silvery foam, But the streams, the streams are cold.

  15. At Colonel Alexander's the cottage of his foreman, as well as many of the farm buildings and stables, stands in a grassy forest, and the mares with their colts roam far and wide.

  16. Through these forest glades roam the herds of cattle or horses.

  17. The frighted beasts of the field herd together, or roam in vain for a place of shelter.

  18. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference bee; They're so unaccustomed to man, Their tameness is shocking to me.

  19. She added: ‘No doubt it is as worthy of a Roman Emperor to roam about at night and join in street brawls with slaves as it is for him to sing, and write verses, and dance on the stage.

  20. He could lay aside all thoughts of rank and state, could dress as he liked, and do as he liked, and roam over the pleasant hills, and fish in the mountain streams, with no chance of meeting any one but simple peasant lads.

  21. Flown with insolence and wine,’ they persuaded the Emperor to disguise himself in the dress of a simple burgher and to roam with them along the Velabrum and the Subura and every street in which they were likely to meet returning guests.

  22. These dungeons were roomy enough to contain respectively from one hundred to one hundred and fifty prisoners, who were at night secured therein with lock and bar, but during the day were permitted to roam about the courts as they thought fit.

  23. Caballero, you will rather consider yourself here as a guest than a prisoner; you will be permitted to roam over every part of this house whenever you think proper.

  24. The dogs, also, as if conscious of a high duty, will roam alone through the day and night in these desolate regions, and if they discover an exhausted traveller will lie on him to impart warmth, and bark and howl for assistance.

  25. Young dogs are put into harness as soon as they can walk, and being tied up, soon acquire a habit of pulling, in their attempts to recover their liberty, or to roam in quest of their mother.

  26. The frosty stars look down Near, near above the kind familiar trees In whose dry branches roam The gentle spirits of the darkling breeze.

  27. The sheep below me in the meadow Seem drifting on the haze, serene and white, Pale pastured dreams, unearthly herds that roam Where the dead reign and phantoms make their home.

  28. While Age limps groping toward his home, Hearing the feet of youth From dark to dark that sadly roam The suburbs of the Truth.

  29. He longed to ask if the divine niece would roam too, but even if she did not, to roam at all would be a delight, and he would besides be doing it under the very roof that sheltered that bright and beautiful head.

  30. Many a night he would roam or linger near her house, hoping to catch a glimpse of her; but, alas!

  31. What made him leave the ship at that late hour, and go to roam on the deserted shore?

  32. Sure we would gladly stop at home The whole year round, and labour, But for the harvest-pence we roam To pick up in the neighbour- Hood of England, wirrasthrue!

  33. I love to roam at the sunset hour, To breathe farewell to the parting day, And kiss the dew from each star-lit flower, That ever weeps as light fades away.

  34. Rishi), Jaratkaru, of excellent vows, who shall roam abegging for a bride.

  35. And coming out of the city, they began to play with a ball and roam about in gladness of heart.

  36. Thou walkest upon the Earth, O king, but I roam in the skies!

  37. There countless birds pour forth their melodies, and beasts of prey roam about.

  38. Mayall once more began to feel a desire to roam over the hills, which had long been his favorite employment; he finally resolved on visiting his more distant hunting-ground in quest of deer, which had become scarce near his home.

  39. Such is the great Knysna forest, where elephants still roam wild.

  40. Down by the Docks, the seamen roam in mid-street and mid-day, their pockets inside out, and their heads no better.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.