rough - use in sentences
Modifying Another Word
- pretty: I also felt pretty rough, I think Ive had a bit of a cold.
- fairly: The vessels could not be separated while they were at sea as there was a strong wind and fairly rough sea at the time.
- notoriously: Unperturbed by this notoriously rough ride in the TV milieu, Lynch made Mulholland Drive for ABC as the pilot for a new series.
- rather: WAP, after all, is a rather rough Internet access standard for mobile phones.
- slightly: They were warm and moist but slightly rough like the hands.
- too: I think their father is too rough with them very often.
Preposition: on
- street: A reduction of the number of people sleeping rough on the streets of Oxford from 52 in June 1999 to 13 in September 2004.
Preposition: around
- edge: Some of the detailing is also rough around the edges.
Modifies a noun
- sleeper: Unlike the big cities, rough sleepers are rarely seen.
- terrain: All of which help to soften out the rough terrain, increasing your enjoyment.
- grassland: Lock four will be built in the triangle of rough grassland in the upper part of the view.
- sleeping: Tackling the scandal of rough sleeping was an early government priority.
- grazing: Bracken fern is a weed species mainly found on rough grazing.
- pasture: Here you're on a steep slope of rough pasture.
Used with adjective complement
- sleep: I hated sleeping rough " " I've been able to learn new computer skills, go to college.
- feel: I also felt pretty rough, I think Ive had a bit of a cold.
- live: SURVIVOR: Fern Whitelaw with her new buddy Bluey, a greyhound that lived rough in the woods or over a year.
- ride: Allowing big corporations to ride rough shod over internationally recognized workers rights.
- get: He said something about turning back if the going got too rough, but I do not recall the surrender being offered.
- look: It was the first time I'd seen her for about eighteen months, and even through the glass partition she looked rough.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
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