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Example sentences for "roughly"

Lexicographically close words:
rougher; roughest; roughhouse; roughing; roughish; roughneck; roughnecks; roughness; roughnesses; roughs
  1. The Old Tavern looks as if it might let lodgings to respectable gentlemen--if they were roughly enough dressed.

  2. Garrick had in the meantime been roughly sketching on the back of an old envelope taken from his pocket.

  3. I also found an old gun some traveler had left, and with a little work I fitted the breech of that to my own gun which was broken, and had been roughly tied together with strips of raw-hide.

  4. I did not like this much, for if we were discovered, we might be roughly handled, and perhaps the property of the innocent even confiscated.

  5. The axle was a piece of wood eight inches square with a tongue fastened to it long enough to be used with a yoke of oxen, and the ends of the axle were roughly rounded, leaving something of a shoulder.

  6. Bouges, bold and bare on their southern face, but falling gently with wooded slopes towards the Tarn which roughly limits the Cevennes on the north.

  7. When the deed has been accomplished, he roughly thrusts the dishonoured maiden from him with pitiless violence, a sure sign that it was not love, but savage desire which had prompted him.

  8. The great mass of the people were distinguished quite roughly into four classes, social strata, of which the boundary lines were vague and uncertain.

  9. This division corresponds roughly with the character of the country; and is that which we meet with in Greek and Latin authors, in the New Testament, and in the Fathers of the Church.

  10. The brandy may be roughly tested for fusel oil by burning a little of it in a dish, and depressing over the flame a saucer or other cold piece of porcelain.

  11. The hard brush should be used as little as possible, and then with a light hand, as it will, if roughly and constantly employed, soon render the cloth threadbare.

  12. The tanks are drained periodically for removing the precipitate, which is first roughly separated from the small pieces of iron, after which it is more thoroughly freed from iron, &c.

  13. This makes the Euphrates the main eastern limit, with radii to the north-east angle of the Levant and the south-east angle of the Black Sea, and roughly agrees with the popular conception of Asia Minor as a geographical region.

  14. At the period of their earliest literature, which may be assigned roughly to about 1000 B.

  15. Over these was laid a platform of small trees hewn roughly into boards.

  16. Forgive me, pretty lass, if I told you bad news over-roughly just now--but you can but ken the worst once.

  17. In the old lane her servants had fled at the first attack, and both she and the prince had been dragged from their horses and roughly handled for the sake of their jewels.

  18. In presence of the class, draw the boundary lines of the tribes, not attempting an accurate copy, but roughly indicating them.

  19. We know the heroic epic in different languages throughout a period which extends roughly from the eighth to the twelfth centuries.

  20. It was roughly sewn up here and there, and seemed to be healing, but the blow on the chest had made it bleed anew; a dark stream was soaking down his leg to the ground.

  21. The Captain caught Antonio a crack on the head, which sent him down very decisively, and then pitched George roughly into the boat with the girls, telling them to stop their infernal din.

  22. The roughly dressed, bewhiskered forester did not impress the young folks at first as being different from the men who had driven the sledges to the camp or those who had brought the party up Long Lake in the ice-boats.

  23. He was a dark boy, with ragged black hair that had evidently been sheared off roughly by an amateur barber.

  24. Both as pioneer and perfecter and as great original composer I have sought roughly to place him.

  25. Wherefore, first roughly to outline his achievement is the reason why I open with a peroration of a sort.

  26. Malcolm's kingdom, though it did not extend over the Norse settlements in the north and west of Scotland, included a territory roughly corresponding to Cumberland and Northumberland in the north of England.

  27. Each of these periods is taken to consist roundly of about four centuries, and the two periods on the Continent together correspond roughly to the last eight or nine centuries before the Christian Era.

  28. Roughly speaking the whole stretch of country forms an L inverted and in the angle of this L stands Tara the ancient capital of North Leinster, but henceforth the capital of Cormac's kingdom.

  29. It corresponds roughly to the title of bishop.

  30. Its curriculum corresponds roughly to a combined high school and college course in America.

  31. Footnote 2: Magister in Russia corresponds roughly to the same title in England and America.

  32. This illustration, roughly as it is sketched, will show what we mean by the use of comparative psychology in aid of classification.

  33. And on passing from what are roughly classed as unicellular organisms to the lowest of those which consist of aggregated cells, we equally observe the connexion between structural differences and differences of circumstance.

  34. This classification, here roughly indicated and capable of further expansion, will be found in harmony with the results of detailed analysis aided by development.

  35. Inquiring into the pedigree of an idea is not a bad means of roughly estimating its value.

  36. Jory had at once gone into ecstasies over the roughly indicated figure of the vintaging girl.

  37. He roughly folded up the screen and sent it flying into a corner.

  38. He traversed the circuit of the plateau, peering downward anxiously, and at last managed roughly to locate the three nests.

  39. He stalked indignantly back to the fence, vaulted it, flung down the milking-stool, grabbed up the milk pails so roughly that the contents slopped over on to his homespun breeches, and set off for home.

  40. We need not scent anything extraordinary behind these intro-determinations, as the scheme is here indeed only roughly sketched; they take place in each and every one of us, otherwise we should be mere beasts.

  41. The three paths followed by the introverting individual correspond roughly to these three other possibilities of life, work (morality), crime, suicide.

  42. Began the year rather roughly by a long day's march over bad and mountainous roads to the wretched village of Ponte de Murcella.

  43. Our Dragoons roughly handled some of them.

  44. Roughly made, unfeathered, and sent by a tyro, it was no wonder that it flew far wide of the mark, striking a bough away to the left and then dropping from twig to twig till it reached the undergrowth below.

  45. All thought of escape by their own efforts had been given up, and they had all taken the good course, roughly put by Shaddy as "making the best of things.

  46. The mystery of the blood was explained simply enough by his roughly bandaged left arm, on which as they examined it, while he lay perfectly weak and insensible, they found a severe wound cleanly cut by a knife.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    about; altogether; approximately; around; badly; broadly; chiefly; commonly; fitfully; generally; grimly; grossly; haltingly; hardly; harshly; improperly; intermittently; irregularly; jerkily; mainly; mostly; nearly; normally; ordinarily; overall; painfully; practically; predominantly; rigorously; rough; roughly; roundly; routinely; say; severe; spasmodically; sporadically; unevenly; unseemly; usually; around; badly; broadly; chiefly; commonly; fitfully; generally; grimly; grossly; haltingly; hardly; harshly; improperly; intermittently; irregularly; jerkily; mainly; mostly; nearly; normally; ordinarily; overall; painfully; practically; predominantly; rigorously; rough; roughly; roundly; routinely; say; severe; spasmodically; sporadically; unevenly; unseemly; usually