roughest
Example Sentences
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“It’s the roughest patch I’ve ever had,” said Foreman, who has been buying toy brands since the early 1990s and went through a bankruptcy-court reorganization of debt last year and Covid-related supply bottlenecks before that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Mustafa Suleyman grew up in subsidized housing in one of London’s roughest areas.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2024
The general idea is that ground surfaces roughen after the mass movement of rocks and soil, so that landslide deposits are the roughest right after the landslide occurs and become smoother over time.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2023
Of Irvine Unified’s 36,000 students in prekindergarten through 12th grade, Bennett said middle schoolers tend to be roughest with the electronics.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023
Then came the time she walked down to the shore through the roughest part of the city to get some driftwood.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
