rough
Example Sentences
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Stocks are setting up for another rough day, led by tech, as a crucial consumer-price inflation report looms.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
The census total includes 162 female rough sleepers in six local authority areas where the official data recorded none.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
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
Sagan and his team mapped out flight paths for placeholders, based on stadium locations and rough dates, long before the official drawing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Then she spoke, in a voice so dark, so rough and so filled with fury that I wished I could turn back time and put the words back inside me.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
