Example Sentences

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When the singer put out “Red Rose Speedway” in 1973, the Village Voice spurned it as “possibly the worst album ever made by a rock and roller of the first rank.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“People right now don’t want a typical candidate. They want a rock and roller, and he’s a rock and roller,” Ed Rendell, a former governor of Pennsylvania, said of Fetterman.

From Reuters • May 13, 2022

RIp meatloaf - great rock and roller - fine actor - I was a fan since rocky horror .

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2022

Bit of a rock and roller, you know, kind of a rebel in a certain way.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2020

To landward, all richness, softness, and peace; to seaward, a waste and howling wilderness of rock and roller, barren to the fisherman, and hopeless to the shipwrecked mariner.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles