'with a roller' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate a tool or implement being used for a certain task. For example, "He painted the wall with a roller."
Painting with a roller is physical work.
"It's such bad publicity with a roller coaster still in the ocean," Mr. Childers said.
The original field, not regulation size, was leveled with a roller and watered by prisoners.
They are then transferred to a final substrate with a roller.
Or hold forth on the wrongness of painting a wood surface with a roller.
"It's no big deal what I do, just paint with a roller.
By applying white house paint with a roller, Rauschenberg deliberately avoided incident or gesture.
Teenagers were ecstatic with a roller coaster tour and the Egypt-themed Luxor Hotel.
"I can do that with a roller," she said, at the first sight of white.
Kreher's 5-4-3 poultryzed comanured poultry manure was spread at 2000 lb/A and incorporated with a roller harrow.
"Coarse" and "ripple" finishes are applied with a roller; others have to be applied using a wide filling knife.
