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Free sign upThe phrase "and the roll of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a list, a record, or a series of items or events, often in a formal or literary style.
Example: "The committee reviewed the minutes and the roll of attendees from the last meeting."
Alternatives: "and the list of" or "and the record of".
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He was awakened finally by the silence of the engine and the roll of the boat, and concluded by its motion that they had crossed the Stream.
Now imagine a soundtrack of campanile bells, impassioned shouts and honking horns - not to mention "the sound of the wind and the roll of the waves", as Loren puts it in her role as nightclub singer Lucia Curcio.
She demands Johnny Depp's or Sean Penn's, and she thinks she has Al Pacino's; but all she gets is Paul's, and the roll of his eyes, in that sad-sack face, when he learns of her wish list is the funniest thing in the film.
Miss DeLay, as she is invariably known (though long married), has been teaching at the Juilliard School for more than half a century, and the roll of her former pupils includes Itzhak Perlman and Sarah Chang, Midori and Kennedy, Gil Shaham and Robert McDuffie, Cho-Liang Lin and Shlomo Mintz.
Every minute the sound of gun fire was added to the strains of the funeral marches, the tread of slow-marchjng feet, the clatter of hooves, and the roll of the carriage wheels; sounds which moved along the Strand, Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill, and ceased only when the gun carriage drew up outside the great west door of St Paul's.
In this exercise, we use colored beads and the roll of a die to simulate drift and selection jointly affecting the fate of the genetic variants in an evolving population.
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Later that afternoon, I sat on the balcony of my dorm smoking a cigarette and clutching the roll of coins.
After achieving unsatisfactory results from wiping your nose on your pajama sleeve, limp to the bathroom and get the roll of toilet paper.
The company's former CEO, founder Ramu Yalamanchi, will stay on and take the roll of Chief Product Officer.
Fold the aluminum foil up and over the roll of hair.
Because we all live and die in the roll of a dice, and no life is worth more than another.
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