Example sentences for: rough

How can you use “rough” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There are rough, large consensuses on all the big issues--economics, social welfare, civil rights, women's rights, war and peace, even abortion.

  • Only a little farther south, around Langdale Pikes, for example, the terrain is formed of volcanic rock; much younger and more dramatic in appearance, these mountains have rough crags and sharper peaks.

  • At a rough guess, the NSOED contains about 200,000 such “entries,” or some twenty per cent fewer than the Random House Unabridged [ RHDU ], the popular dictionary nearest in size.

  • This tells us about the age of the victim , not of the shooter, but it's the best rough proxy I've seen in my professional readings (I teach a seminar on firearms regulation at UCLA Law School).

  • Because nomenclature and characterization often go hand-in-hand, evaluating the state of nomenclature can provide a rough estimate of the extent to which members of the collection have been previously characterized.


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