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roam

[rohm] / roʊm /


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Since the songs release, Star has said she would like to "roam every inch of Wales" and perhaps visit the Eisteddfod one day, as she enjoys learning more about Wales and the Welsh language.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

For students at UC Riverside, the start of fall semester means picking up their class syllabus, catching up with friends and snapping selfies with the adorable wild donkeys that roam around the school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The pictures in this uneven but often striking show at the Yale Center for British Art roam from the 19th-century English countryside to British India to modern London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Shaikh said they wanted to see the right to roam enshrined in the law as it was in Scotland when the Land Reform Act came into effect in 2005.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

That year our parents decided that we were old enough to roam the neighborhood unattended.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

It roams from the sidewalk to the soul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Until then, Promise's goat will continue enjoying special status at the student halls where he roams freely and even has some human-like habits.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Much of this roams pretty far from Orwell’s vision, but that’s not the reason the film fails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

The five-person cast roams the room, sitting at various circular tables to blur the lines between script and improvisation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

His gaze roams the space until it lands on a youngish, bearded black man in a dashiki shirt and kufi hat.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

About the size of a large tiger and armed with enormous curved claws, the animal roamed what is now Britain approximately 120 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

When Amy Potter was growing up, she roamed free in rural Australia and jumped off a shed onto her trampoline until it had a hole in it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

For millions of years, Pacific mastodons — huge, hairy relatives of modern elephants — roamed a vast and lush range that included California, Oregon, the northern Rocky Mountains and parts of Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Researchers have found a trove of dinosaur fossils across the region, which holds the country's richest deposits, offering insight into the creatures that roamed the planet millions of years ago.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

It was hard to believe that in this wide beauty there roamed three souls trapped to do evil.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Not all charging downtime is spent roaming the Walmart snack aisles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Fires that spread near to the site restricted their roaming area further, leaving them without a safe route to other forestry.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Now he logs 30,000 steps a day roaming the halls of a million-square-foot data center in the Virginia suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

To go somewhere and have your entire family dressed in Spider-Man regalia, roaming the streets of San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Satyrs were having trouble finding new demigods and bringing them to Half-Blood Hill because so many monsters were roaming the country.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan


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