How to Use roll down in a Sentence

roll down

phrasal verb

• The car rolled down the hill, into a ravine and landed against a tree.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 5 July 2023
• Delta said a nose gear tire and rim had come loose and then rolled down a hill.
  — Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
• No one was found in the front seat, and the driver's side window was rolled down.
  — Katherine Itoh, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Then, a foot on the screen nudges the bottle of wine and sends it rolling down a set of concrete stairs.
  — Shaeden Berry, refinery29.com, 20 July 2023
• But Ellis couldn't roll down the window to talk to the teen because the air was too smoky.
  — Ashley Riegle, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2023
• The car veered off the roadway, rolled down an embankment and hit a tree.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• The bouncers locked the doors and rolled down a garage door-style window opening.
  — The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024
• Once inside the car, the tears continued to roll down his face.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• There are grips around the top to stop it from rolling down, and the material is very nice.
  — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2024
• At the same moment, an SUV pulled up, and the driver rolled down her window.
  — Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2024
• The gate rolls down, large metal doors clang in the middle, and Buddy Guy has left the building.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2024
• Brian said to Jim, as the rancher pulled over and rolled down his window.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• Place hard avocados in a paper bag and fold or roll down the top to close the bag.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2023
• The Lancaster terminal was cleaned out, and the doors rolled down and locked.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• Eventually, the driver of the truck was able to roll down his window and briefly hit the brakes.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2024
• Choose your metaphor: A door opens, a page turns, a window rolls down and a new dog’s sweet nose will sniff the fresh air of freedom.
  — Mariashines, cleveland, 24 July 2023
• From Uptown to Lakeview, floats, trucks, golf carts and cars decked out with streamers and flags rolled down the street.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
• First, the sedan’s door latch on the passenger side was jammed and Fishman had to roll down the window and open it from the outside.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 7 July 2024
• Esther felt a sudden wave of nausea and tears once again rolled down her cheeks.
  — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• The driver, Jose Luis Benitez Sanchez, pulled up to the dancing group with his window rolled down.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
• According to reviewers, the bike shorts don’t roll down, and the fabric isn’t see through.
  — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2023
• After the Fiat rolls down the Spanish Steps like a toddler on a knoll, their places are reversed.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• At the top of the ladder-like stairs that rolled down to meet me with a thud there was now a hole in the ceiling where Nick Cave himself stood, bathed in backlight.
  — Mark Mordue, SPIN, 1 Dec. 2023
• Place hard avocados in a paper bag and fold or roll down the top to close the bag to trap ethylene.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2024
• The wife, sitting innocently in the passenger’s seat, might roll down the window and make the toss.
  — TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
• The loggia looks over the swimming pool, beyond which a tree-shaded lawn rolls down to the estate’s 300 feet of river frontage.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
• During their wedding day last month, Seewald rolled down the 60 feet aisle for about 40 feet in her wheelchair.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• This was a man on an electric scooter, rolling down a crowded Seattle street in the early evening, strapped with a gun.
  — USA Today, 26 June 2023
• Experts said drivers should roll down their windows after being pulled over, even on a hot summer day.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2024
• This field would quickly move from potential to kinetic energy and back again, as if the field were rolling down a hill, into a valley, up another hill and then back down again over and over.
  — Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024