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Example sentences for "rolled over"

  • She side-slipped wildly, rolled over, and Mel watched for no more, but turned his attention and his gun to another target.

  • Soon I rolled over to her side, to my astonishment she lay quite still with mouth open, snoring, and holding the two sovereigns in her hand.

  • Furiously I pulled her back, rolled over her, and fingered her; she rose spite of me, and went off.

  • We rolled over, and struggled for a second, I saw white thighs a huge bum, and then we were both up.

  • The first shot therefore went high, but the second hit the lion square in the chest, and he rolled over dead.

  • My Springfield bullet hit him fair, whereupon he stood square on his head and waved his tail in the air, rolled over three or four times, thrashed the water, and disappeared.

  • At the shot she bounded high in the air, fell, rolled over, and was up and into the thicket before I had much more than time to pump up another shell from the magazine.

  • The spaniel John, seeing what lay before him, rolled over on his back.

  • He rolled over, lay on his face, and prayed.

  • Quite suddenly he rolled over, stared for a moment, and struggled into a sitting position.

  • He was knocked sideways, rolled over, and recovered his feet.

  • He shouted, rolled over, struggling fiercely, clutched an attendant's leg and threw him headlong, and struggled to his feet.

  • This is life," remarked my napping valet, as he rolled over on his pillow.

  • Then he rolled over with a mighty lunge, but scrambled to his feet holding his hand aloft, to almost immediately hurl the ball in to Jones on second.

  • As we rolled over the "stringer" of the bridge, I was partly under the horse.

  • It seemed to me that we rolled over before we came to the surface.

  • Then the full force of the current struck him, he rolled over sidewise, and horse and boy went off the lower end of the bridge, in eight feet of swift water.

  • A shell neatly dropped in a trench within a few feet of where he stood, rolled over, spitting red flashes.

  • He rolled over on his face, straightened himself, and slid to the edge.

  • He rolled over at Leila's feet seeing a firmament of stars and rose bewildered.

  • He upset half-way down, rolled over, and got on again laughing.

  • He had heard the ripping sound of the dagger pressed upward into the victim's breast, and his dying groan as he rolled over in the snow.

  • There was a horrible ripping sound, and he rolled over bleeding in the snow.

  • When Clifford Standish plunged the dagger into Hawthorne's breast, and heard the groan of the victim, felt the hot blood spurting over his hands as he rolled over in the snow, he thought he had killed him.

  • He did not move for a long while; then he rolled over on his side, wound his watch, and lay there until morning.

  • By a painful effort he rolled over on his side.

  • Very slowly, because of his exceeding weakness and stiffness, he rolled over on his other side.

  • As he rolled over on his elbow he was startled by a loud snort, and saw a bull caribou regarding him with alert curiosity.

  • Josiah Graham, as he rolled over in the dirt of the gutter and picked himself up.

  • As quick as a flash he rolled over, from under the very forepaws of the polar bear, and continued to roll, down a slight hill to one side.

  • Both Andy and Barwell Dawson fired at the beast, and he rolled over in a death convulsion, and was speedily put out of his misery by Chet with his hunting knife.

  • But when the door opened anyway and I rolled over to see who the intruder was, I damn near fainted.

  • Steve was beginning to stir, his eyes opening as he rolled over.

  • Then he rolled over, pulling the blanket up over his shoulders, as his thoughts went back to his earlier misgivings.

  • As the trapper ceased speaking Grey slowly rolled over, insensible.

  • Then suddenly he rolled over on one side, and his stertorous breathing indicated a deep, unnatural slumber.

  • Hervey fell to the ground with a gurgling cry, and Neche, the dog, until then forgotten by everybody, rolled over by his side with one dying yelp of pain.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rolled over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alone together; bathing suit; bold front; constitutional right; first born; gloved hand; great lady; hear him; insane persons; little time; more high; must own; name written; neutral vessel; not fear; obtain what; rolled oats; rolled over; six feet; solid silver; straight ball; thrice blessed; when formed