roving

Example Sentences

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As a roving correspondent, he did … well, some serious roving.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

The Fed’s roving remit and grand ambitions, however, expanded its surface area and exposed its vulnerability even more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

What makes this move especially strained is that Heck was never meant to function as a roving doctrine of constitutional quarantine.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2026

Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland, abuts hot spots like Somalia and Yemen but lacks the constant coups, wars, riots, terrorist attacks, ideological reckonings and other usual attractions for roving correspondents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

Here and there they came upon roving bands of Orcs; but they fled ere the Riders could take or slay them.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien