roughest
Example Sentences
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Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
“It’s the roughest patch I’ve ever had,” said Foreman, who has been buying toy brands since the early 1990s and went through a bankruptcy-court reorganization of debt last year and Covid-related supply bottlenecks before that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Jauregui arrived in 2021 as the band program was experiencing one of its roughest periods.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024
Mustafa Suleyman grew up in subsidized housing in one of London’s roughest areas.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2024
I considered leaving off my boots, as feet that can run bare over Tarbean’s rooftops are in no danger of being hurt by the roughest forest floor.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
