tandem roller

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noun

a type of road roller in which the front and back wheels consist of rollers of about the same diameter

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Words nearby tandem roller

T&A, T&E, tandem, tandem bicycle, tandem-compound, tandem roller, tandem trailer, T & G, Tandjungpriok, tandoor, tandoori

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How to use tandem roller in a sentence

They're made to make a lot of money and to get teenagers in a kind of experience, a roller coaster ride.
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People would just be shouting, like you go to church, a holy roller church or something like that.
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My seven-year-old son still can't go on all the roller coasters he wants, because he is a few inches too short.
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His cadence is a steady beat rather than a roller coaster, and his words sparing and simple.
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But in some circumstances, the two vital elements can work in tandem—as a project recently unveiled in Anguilla reveals.
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An amount of slack in the chain caused the balls to knock on passing this roller before entering the pump bottom.
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The tandem rider on the forward seat did the steering and the foot pedaling, and the rear rider operated the motor.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
It appeared at the Madison Square Garden in two forms, as a single motorcycle and as a motor tandem.
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Along in the late nineties a keen interest in bicycle racing led to the introduction of what is known as the motor-paced tandem.
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But before this extreme is reached, the momentum of the revolving balance carries the roller pin entirely out of the fork.
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