roly-poly
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In June, during Russia’s annual flagship economic forum in St. Petersburg, A7’s stand featured a giant roly-poly toy with the company’s logo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
As generations of Russian children know, the roly-poly 'nevalyashka' wobbles a lot, but never falls down.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
The roly-poly rodents chew up and move around large amounts of plant material, damming streams to create ponds where they can hide from predators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
David Byrne applies his quizzical-observer perspective in “The Fat Man’s Comin’,” a brief, brawny and elaborately arranged chamber-pop bolero about “a roly-poly man in the dark, he’s riding.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
Rushing’s feet, I remember, were big and funny-shaped—not long like most big feet, but they were round and roly-poly like Rushing.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
The couple performed their Saturday night jive to Wilson Pickett's Land of 1000 Dances, making the studio audience cheer with excitement after executing a series of roly-polies.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2022
“When I was really small we’d get ants and roly-polies and make enclosures.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
Among the consumables: beaver bone soup, moose bone marrow, woodcock hung until it reached the desired “hallucinogenic point of decay,” caribou haunch, eels with sour-grass sauce, roly-polies and pandowdies.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
That night Stanton made two roly-polies of the blueberries we picked in the afternoon, boiling them in specimen bags, and we used the last of our sugar for sauce.
From The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace
