ROUGH in a Sentence

Learn ROUGH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
263 example sentences for ROUGH, such as:
1. Poor kid, he's had a rough day.
2. Take the rough with the smooth.
3. They live in a rough part of town.
4. The rough road often leads to the top.
5. His behaviour is sometimes rather rough.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ROUGH
rough
 a.  causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
 v.  prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "He has a rough tongue, but he is a gentleman," Gerald had definitely arrived.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Men were rough of speech and often drunk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  By this time Scarlett was boiling, ready to rear like a horse at the touch of a strange rough hand on its bridle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Your mother agreed, providing he was able to jump the pasture fence, for, she said, there would be a lot of rough riding to be done in the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  And even if you reached Jonesboro safely, there'd be a five-mile ride over a rough road before you ever reached Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  "You little fool," and his voice was swift and rough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  "It's only a cow," said Scarlett, her voice rough with fright.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  For a moment Scarlett went faint, already feeling rough hands thrusting themselves into her bosom, fumbling at her garters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Through the blur, she saw the men moving toward the doorway, heard the sergeant calling commands in a loud rough voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  But if you'd been there much, you'd know there's a mighty rough bunch of Scallawags and Republicans and Carpetbaggers been runnin things recently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  She turned away and started back toward the house across the rough fields, twisting her hair into a knot upon her neck.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  This hand was rough from work, brown with sunburn, splotched with freckles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  But for a woman to leave the protection of her home and venture out into the rough world of men, competing with them in business, rubbing shoulders with them, being exposed to insult and gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  It was bad enough that she had intruded herself among strange rough workmen, but it was still worse for a woman to show publicly that she could do mathematics like that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  Scarlett thought of the kind, gnarled hands of Mammy worn rough in Ellen's service and hers and Wade's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  We jolted along rough wet roads through an endless banana plantation.
2  I can give you a rough estimate of the amount of wood you will need.
3  The rough road often leads to the top.
4  They live in a rough part of town.
5  Our toys are designed to withstand the rough treatment of the average five-year-old.
6  Take the rough with the smooth.
7  Check all surfaces for snags and rough edges.
8  Her pupils often got the rough edge of her tongue when they disobeyed her.
9  Don't fear pressure, for pressure is what turns rough stones into diamonds.
10  It was a rough mountain road, full of stones and huge holes.
11  I can give you a rough estimate of the number of bricks you will need.
12  Trial by television makes for very rough justice indeed.
13  Poor kid, he's had a rough day.
14  A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle.
15  His behaviour is sometimes rather rough.