"roll" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He veered further, beginning to catch the ground; in a moment he would be rolling back uphill, and gravity would help stay his motion.
- Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rolling uphill against gravity.
- There was my father, white-faced, black-cloaked, his hair the color of a midwinter fire, showing a tiny girl how to point her finger and make pebbles roll uphill.
- No-his new understanding told him that the boulders were cars-wheel-less wagons able to roll uphill without being hauled by horses.
- If everything else is becoming more "stable" this can outweigh the ball rolling uphill in the reaction.
- Juanita's car rolled uphill through a last stretch of sparse grass and between a pair of electronic perimeter stakes.
- Odd angles seem to create an illusion of objects seemingly rolling uphill.
- Honda's advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy eventually admitted to copying a sequence of weighted tires rolling uphill.
- It is also known as Gravity Hill, for there is a superstition that cars roll uphill there.
- The title is a reference to Electric Brae in Ayrshire, where a natural optical illusion makes it seem that things can roll uphill.
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