high-rolling
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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She struggled to hoist herself into the high rolling chair at the teller window.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
Surrounded by miles of empty countryside, the small community of Hanover is something of an island on the high, rolling plains southeast of Colorado Springs.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2016
Attempting to turn around would have plunged the bow of a seriously overloaded boat into the teeth of high, rolling waves with only a kayak paddle for power.
From Washington Times • Feb. 21, 2016
That may be as much high rolling as most of us can do these days.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2010
We passed over the high rolling prairie, where but a few and scattered cabins then existed, but which is now the site of Kansas City, a beautiful city of 90,000 inhabitants.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
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