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
Wade’s gurgling pompadour matches well with his roly-poly physique and go-with-the-flow personality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
The best one was Cara Hope hitting a tackle bag and then doing a roly-poly over the front.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023
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
This roly-poly guy with an upside-down face was playing his trumpet in it.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
