Roy
1 Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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After taking a suggestion from the audience, Jordan Black and Roy Jenkins begin an improvised scene in which they are playing two exterminators whose jobs are their identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Among moviegoers, Roy Lee is far from a brand name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Left-back Roy Revivo signed for Spanish club Elche on transfer deadline day this month from Maccabi Tel Aviv, while Twente defender Stav Lemkin, also 23, is also highly rated.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
A couple years before Pinterest delivered this revelation to me, chef Roy Choi gave me another version of the same permission — only a little less polite.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Pris said, “That’s very nice of you, J. R. Isidore. But if bounty hunters got the others, got Max Polokov and Garland and Luba and Hasking and Roy Baty—”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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