Example sentences for: rough-and-tumble

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

  • The neighborhood known as Cayo Hueso, just behind the Malecón, is a rough-and-tumble barrio once populated by cigar-factory workers.

  • Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.

  • Joan Egland, age 68, came to a Bob Dole rally in Ames, Iowa, aware that politics is rough-and-tumble.

  • At any rate, Indians somehow won out--inspired, supposedly, by a rough-and-tumble, crowd-pleasing red man whose exciting playing career was unfortunately cut short by a series of scrapes, off-field misadventures, and episodes with the bottle.

  • Bar London (c/ Nou de la Rambla, 34) is a rough-and-tumble place with occasional live jazz and rock.


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