ROUGHLY in a Sentence
Learn ROUGHLY 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 ROUGHLY, such as:
1. He played roughly with the baby.
2. I'll drag him, she said roughly.
3. 'Come, get up,' said the man, roughly.
4. The youth roughly pushed his friend away.
5. The lane is roughly parallel to the main road.
2. I'll drag him, she said roughly.
3. 'Come, get up,' said the man, roughly.
4. The youth roughly pushed his friend away.
5. The lane is roughly parallel to the main road.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ROUGHLY
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roughly
ad. with rough motion as over a rough surface
ad. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 He shook off her hand roughly and spoke as though he hardly heard her, hardly knew what she said.
2 He reached up roughly, caught her under the arms and swung her to the ground beside him.
3 I'll drag him, she said roughly.
4 One of his legs was gone at the knee and to the stump was fitted a roughly whittled wooden peg.
5 He held her so tightly, so roughly that it hurt and the hand over her mouth pinched into her jaws cruelly.
6 His breath was not on her face and his hands went round her roughly, under the wrapper, against her bare skin.
7 The poor fellow whom Queequeg had handled so roughly, was swept overboard; all hands were in a panic; and to attempt snatching at the boom to stay it, seemed madness.
8 Blue puffs of smoke came from the stovepipe that stuck out through the grass and snow, but the wind whisked them roughly away.
9 The fellow seems to have handled you pretty roughly.
10 The youth roughly pushed his friend away.
11 "So I have," said the man, as he roughly, but kindly, drew her up the steep bank.
12 Charlie May was slightly satirical, for he had flirted a very little with Julia, and Hammond had cut up very roughly.
13 They went into the living-room, where a baby was sitting on the rag hearth rug, and the table was roughly set for tea.
14 'Come, get up,' said the man, roughly.
15 Turning to Oliver, he roughly commanded him to take hold of Nancy's hand.
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1 The money I've saved corresponds roughly to the amount I need for my course.
2 The amount of food a child needs is roughly proportional to its size.
3 He played roughly with the baby.
4 If you treat your coat so roughly, it will be worn out soon.
5 She tore the page out roughly, leaving a ragged edge in the book.
6 Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
7 We live roughly halfway between here and the coast.
8 The lane is roughly parallel to the main road.
9 Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
10 We have roughly similar tastes/roughly the same tastes.
11 The new company, to be called Sony BMG, will have roughly a quarter of global sales and will rival Universal Music for the number one spot.
12 Speak roughly to your little boy; And beat him when he sneezes; He only does it to annoy; Because he knows it teases.
13 Various measures of heart rate variability have been proposed, which can roughly be subdivided into time domain, frequency domain and non-linear measures.
14 This recently completed new Gothic church in roughly Texas limestone is located in the Spring Branch section of Houston.
15 I think a benefit is that a blast is roughly going to tend towards spherical, meaning that pieces will be scattered into space, back towards the atmosphere.