rough-and-tumble

Example Sentences

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The daughter of a Marine father and a trauma nurse mother, Murphy grew up outside of Chicago as a rough-and-tumble kid.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet to many he was best experienced onstage, where he’d thread his songs into a kind of running monologue about his rough-and-tumble life.

From Los Angeles Times

Abstraction meets landscape; painterly application meets rough-and-tumble applications.

From The Wall Street Journal

This may work in some of the rough-and-tumble scraps of urban politics, but it’s hardly the approach of someone who wants to unite a city as important as New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

Indeed, the Maddens found a certain frisson from the get-go in writing about their rough-and-tumble upbringing with a squeaky-clean pop flair.

From Los Angeles Times