rough-and-tumble

Example Sentences

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After Harvard Law and a dreary turn as a tax attorney, he joined the rough-and-tumble New York commodities firm J. Aron.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Mr. Soto makes evocative use of pop songs and a wandering clarinet motif, and with cinematographer Juan Sarmiento G. fashions a rough-and-tumble aesthetic well-suited to its chaotic central character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

On the one hand Klopp's 'heavy metal' football was tamed by an appreciation of territorial dominance, on the other Guardiola used Klopp's ideas to adapt to the rough-and-tumble of Premier League life.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2025

Whether it’s about Indigenous people and what they had to go through under cowboys, or reclaiming the cowboy spirit of what America was built on — this kind of rough-and-tumble existence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

They don’t surrender anything—not their friendships, video games, the rough-and-tumble sports some of them play, or even their macho posturing.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove