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
A stage adaptation can’t duplicate the way Lumet visually distilled the rough-and-tumble New York zeitgeist of the tumultuous early 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 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
In 1576 a theater rose in a rough-and-tumble London neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
They were a rough-and-tumble bunch, not very worldly, but earnest and used to hard work.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
