Example sentences for: roller-skating

How can you use “roller-skating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...

  • Roller-skating.

  • As I recall it, the entire country spent the early '80s in a seizure of revulsion over the late '70s, and the brief disco-era roller-skating fad placed a close second to Vietnam in terms of national shame.

  • One of the most popular facilities is the Vélodrome, with a redwood track for cycling and roller-skating around a central arena for boxing, wrestling, and basketball, with ice-skating in winter.

  • If you enjoy nursing grazed knees and elbows, you might like to emulate the local inhabitants and try a spot of roller-skating using in-line skates, or Roller-Blades, which have the wheels all in a row instead of one at each corner.


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