Example Sentences

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In Mali, the insurgency started off in 2012 before being taken over by Malian al Qaeda leader Iyad ag Ghali, a former Marlboro-puffing rock’n’roller who became radicalized and banned music from the territories he controls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Like a grenade slowly rolling around a room, Timothy Carey’s erratically brilliant, thoroughly independent 1962 film tracks Clarence’s rise from family man to rock’n’roller to megalomaniac politician.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2023

There is also a famous story that he asked Presley if he believed a rock’n’roller could go to heaven.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2015

There also was a video remembrance of the 1989 earthquake that happened just before the scheduled start of Game 3 at Candlestick Park, and rock’n’roller Huey Lewis shouted “Play ball!”

From Washington Times • Oct. 24, 2014

It's called For Ellen, and is about a stumbling, slurring rock'n'roller, complete with chipped black nail varnish, on the skids and far from home, who staggers into a nameless, snow-covered small town.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2013