Example Sentences

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The couple performed their Saturday night jive to Wilson Pickett's Land of 1000 Dances, making the studio audience cheer with excitement after executing a series of roly-polies.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2022

“When I was really small we’d get ants and roly-polies and make enclosures.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2022

Among the consumables: beaver bone soup, moose bone marrow, woodcock hung until it reached the desired “hallucinogenic point of decay,” caribou haunch, eels with sour-grass sauce, roly-polies and pandowdies.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2016

When you�re buried, you just rot and roly-polies pick at you until they get bored.

From Time Magazine Archive

That night Stanton made two roly-polies of the blueberries we picked in the afternoon, boiling them in specimen bags, and we used the last of our sugar for sauce. 

From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon