rough-and-tumble
Example Sentences
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If EVs are coming for the world, this is the rough-and-tumble frontier.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
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 • Nov. 15, 2025
Abstraction meets landscape; painterly application meets rough-and-tumble applications.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
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 • Aug. 12, 2025
Once, last year, the language arts teacher assigned him a poem about this rough-and-tumble guy who couldn’t let people see the bluebird that lived in his heart.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
