• Gradually, the mound gets larger, kills the plant, develops into a dune, and roams the desert for eternity.

    BBC: The ghostly shore of Namibia��s Skeleton Coast

  • The title flock, all escaped pets, now roams free, and the birds make fabulous subjects.

    NEWYORKER: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

  • The local livestock roams widely, and perishes often enough to provide a carrion supply.

    ECONOMIST: Coping with troublesome young birds

  • If the soul of David Packard still roams the Earth, it may inhabit the body of Jim Goodnight.

    FORBES: CEOs for the next century

  • As she roams around on the weekend, she tries to figure out which properties are going at a premium.

    WSJ: Asia's Best Analyst: Malaysia

  • Khodorkovsky used similar maneuvers, but he sits in prison for tax evasion, while Abramovich roams the sidelines of Chelsea football games.

    FORBES: Berezovsky vs. Abramovich: Insecure Oligarchs Spell Bad Russian Economy

  • But a special award goes to Chris Dodd, the former Senator who now roams Gucci Gulch lobbying for Hollywood's movie studios.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Crony Capitalist Blowout

  • It is rumoured that one of the original residents, a little girl called Mary Masters who died of cholera in 1791, roams the hotel corridors.

    BBC: Haunted Dublin

  • Every day, starting in the morning, he roams through the devastated areas of the city with a vacillating mind and an impassive face.

    NPR: 'The Swallows of Kabul' Book Excerpt

  • In practice, an animal that roams hundreds of miles in the wild can find itself contained in a space no bigger than a living room.

    BBC: Exotic pets: Why do Americans keep dangerous animals?

  • People such as Kevin Petzer, a 65-year-old Zimbabwean who still roams South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia from his base in the KwaZulu-Natal province in eastern South Africa.

    WSJ: In Geology, Old-Timers Can Be Worth Their Weight in Gold

  • In this well-researched book, Clark Lawlor of Northumbria University roams through the history and culture of depression and shows how attitudes to the illness have changed through the ages.

    ECONOMIST: How man has dealt with mental illness

  • And he roams the badlands of the central Australian bush, where the red gums wait for the river to flood before releasing their seeds to be carried away and germinate downstream.

    ECONOMIST: Trees

  • Williams roams Connecticut's woods armed with a propane torch to incinerate clumps of Japanese barberry, an invasive plant species that chokes off native vegetation and provides a favorite habitat for ticks.

    WSJ: This Season's Ticking Bomb

  • Instead, he figure-eights around the parking lot in his pickup, or burrows in his windowless office at the stadium, or roams the empty stands at night, a morose, obsessed, and unappeasable boss.

    NEWYORKER: Playing The Numbers

  • During a call the service monitors how fast data are going through the air and adjusts call quality so the video doesn't cut off when a network's load changes or someone roams to a new cellular tower.

    FORBES: Focus

  • The hero of this melodramatic story of pre-Revolutionary America is Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis), a rugged but sensitive individualist who roams the forest of the Hudson Valley in the company of two Indians, Chingachgook (Russell Means) and Uncas (Eric Schweig).

    NEWYORKER: The Last of the Mohicans

  • Panic grips the markets, spreading outward from one global capital and then back inward in a spiraling oscillation of fear and greed and fear again that roams from New York to London to Germany to Japan and back to New York again, whether through Moscow or Calgary or Milan.

    FORBES: It's Only a Market

  • Early in the program, Miyamoto appeared on a giant video screen to demonstrate Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the fourteenth installment in the Zelda series, which he created in 1986, and which involves the adventures of an avatar named Link, who roams a fantasy world in an attempt to rescue a princess, Zelda.

    NEWYORKER: Master of Play

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