roly-poly
Example Sentences
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With their roly-poly bodies, child-like eyes, long whiskers and tiny padded paws, otters are some of the most charismatic animals in nature.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2024
A Xerces-supported group in Riverside known as the California Bumble Bee Atlas is signing up community scientists to observe California’s 25 species of lovable bumblebees, the roly-poly pandas of the insect world.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 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
“Dumplings, yumplings, roly-poly dumplings! Eat you, eat you, we will eat you UP!”
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
