roving
Example Sentences
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Along with a bigger security team in stations, Timm has promised roving guards in the railcars.
From Seattle Times
From a barren house in wintry Colorado where Ellie brings her caretaker, who has been stabbed in the gut by roving raiders, we leap to the memory of the government-run school where Ellie was raised.
From Salon
Relatives told them that the Taliban were roving door to door to question people about their connections to Americans.
From New York Times
A roving operator was sent to the Cresta Dam and confirmed the outage, but it’s not clear whether that employee checked the fuses.
From Los Angeles Times
And remarkably, although Percy has been roving across that rock ever since, scientists still know very little about it.
From Scientific American
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