Examples of rota in a Sentence
a rota of housekeeping duties
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Frances split the bills three ways, set the house rules, and stuck a cleaning rota on the fridge.
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Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
The course has yielded some of the best scores in the Open rota.
—Jim Hoban, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
It was decided randomly by rota; the managers, careless matchmakers, like God.
—Dizz Tate, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
My rota consisted of one day, and two night, shifts.
—Sinéad O’Sullivan, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2023
The drivable 18th ranks as the easiest par 4 on The Open rota.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 29 June 2022
Suddenly moving from an official position while on a royal rota is the most cardinal of sins.
—Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022
Native Americans, for example, have different names for the year’s rota of full moons, a technique partly designed to track the passage of time.
—Robin Andrews, Forbes, 26 May 2021
Turnberry, on Scotland's Ayrshire coast, is one of the finest venues on the Open Championship rota and has produced some of the most memorable finishes of the last 40-odd years.
—Eamon Lynch, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2021
Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
The course has yielded some of the best scores in the Open rota.
—Jim Hoban, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
It was decided randomly by rota; the managers, careless matchmakers, like God.
—Dizz Tate, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
My rota consisted of one day, and two night, shifts.
—Sinéad O’Sullivan, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2023
The drivable 18th ranks as the easiest par 4 on The Open rota.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 29 June 2022
Suddenly moving from an official position while on a royal rota is the most cardinal of sins.
—Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022
Native Americans, for example, have different names for the year’s rota of full moons, a technique partly designed to track the passage of time.
—Robin Andrews, Forbes, 26 May 2021
Turnberry, on Scotland's Ayrshire coast, is one of the finest venues on the Open Championship rota and has produced some of the most memorable finishes of the last 40-odd years.
—Eamon Lynch, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2021
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Rota
geographical name
Ro·ta
ˈrō-tə 
1
island in the western Pacific Ocean at the southern end of the Mariana Islands area 35 square miles (91 square kilometers)
2
town and port on the Atlantic Ocean in southwestern Spain population 29,136
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