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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of roister.

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Examples

  • After Independence, orphaned and alone at seventeen, Jackson apprenticed in the law at Salisbury, North Carolina, and developed a reputation as a wild young man who drank, gambled, and roistered.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • After Independence, orphaned and alone at seventeen, Jackson apprenticed in the law at Salisbury, North Carolina, and developed a reputation as a wild young man who drank, gambled, and roistered.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • But already others were speaking, more than one at once, and the wind roistered about and scattered their words out of reach.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • But already others were speaking, more than one at once, and the wind roistered about and scattered their words out of reach.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • But already others were speaking, more than one at once, and the wind roistered about and scattered their words out of reach.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Harnessed four lions to a chariot, assembled an entourage of magicians, dancing girls, and clowns, and roistered heedlessly.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • While his chief roistered in Athens and made little trips across the Adriatic to torment me, a colleague, for not achieving my objectives as stated in our agreement.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Harnessed four lions to a chariot, assembled an entourage of magicians, dancing girls, and clowns, and roistered heedlessly.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • While his chief roistered in Athens and made little trips across the Adriatic to torment me, a colleague, for not achieving my objectives as stated in our agreement.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • She roistered her phaser and detached her tricorder from her belt.

    Mind Meld Vornholt, John 1997

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