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    Use "roughly" in a sentence

    roughly example sentences

    roughly


    1. Scar slowly raised his gun and pointed it above his shoulder, aiming it roughly at her face


    2. ‘What is it?’ he asked, rubbing a towel roughly over his hair


    3. He tries to show them some papers, but they brush past him roughly


    4. The walls were breeze-block, roughly pointed, and the floor of the cell was the same rough concrete as the corridor


    5. He was yanked roughly out of their reach


    6. They manhandled us roughly throughout the journey, and answered our questions with terse monosyllabic grunts


    7. The first anniversary of the official establishment of the Guild was celebrated by a brilliant show at the new concert hall here in London … I have a feeling that it has been built on roughly the same site as the Royal Albert Hall on Earth, though I am not positive about that


    8. It was roughly kedoid in shape but obviously not closely related because it's mouth opened sideways like an Earth bug's


    9. Your body now roughly resembles an old-fashioned plough


    10. ” John took her roughly in his arms and held her close and kissed her hard, probing her mouth with his tongue

    11. Their leader reached over and took her hand, firmly but not roughly


    12. He lived in a one room cabin of roughly piled stone chinked with whitewashed mud and roofed with thatch


    13. I placed it roughly beside her water bottle again and stood straight


    14. Joseph roughly jerked the drawer open and tossed the bottle to Howard


    15. The grounds were roughly walled with loose stone and the lawn was nothing but some mossy slopes leading up to the doors between the trunks


    16. Reaching for a handful of mud, Sheila roughly rubbed it onto Chrissie’s chest, her touch knowing and experienced


    17. Jim puts his hands on Leona's shoulders and shakes her roughly, trying to get a response, trying to jiggle the batteries and switch the current back on


    18. He got himself under control, sort of, and with the one word explanation, “Enjteen!” he roughly set about seeing just how many samples Enjteen had taken in his career in this lab


    19. was just deposited that month, bringing that account, with a modest interest rate also compounded, to roughly $13,000


    20. ‘What do you want?’ he called out roughly

    21. She threw his things roughly to the floor, then threw herself across the bed


    22. Then he set them round with three bands of iron rod, roughly mimicking the the contour of the base, and proceeded to stand the numbered staves around its perimeter


    23. “Ten percent is roughly two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Mr


    24. Francois grasped the man roughly by the collar and


    25. A minute later, he pressed her into the cab of the truck, and slammed the door roughly


    26. The lakes extended at a roughly sixty degree angle all across the tropics and northern temperate zones, seven hundred oxygen barometric feet above Earth's sea level


    27. Roughly a day later, they didn’t even bother to stop the other party that arrived at their gate


    28. Standing just over five-stones (roughly ten human feet), his father wasn’t the largest of the Boulder Dwarfs


    29. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum


    30. "Holmes!" "Can't you hear me, Holmes?" There was a rustling, as if he had shaken the sick man roughly by the shoulder

    31. The turtle was rather roughly told to carry the guest to the place on the sand, which he did


    32. It was roughly an elongated triangle with big holes in it and lights in each corner


    33. A new procession of roughly a hundred soldiers had begun


    34. and dragged the child roughly to his feet and began to


    35. Firstly he chose five personal guards, then he divided the rest of the gang into roughly four groups of fifty each


    36. After another couple of miles she took the professor’s advice and left the highway, heading down a more rural road that ran roughly parallel


    37. Before she could make it any further, hands grabbed her and roughly pulled her to land


    38. Before Lemoss could think, the three men bustled out, pushed him roughly aside before crossing over into the grocer


    39. roughly as she tried to obstruct him, and slapped the child


    40. Identical in shape and design, the pillars were roughly three feet in diameter, and rose from the room’s floor to the ceiling (which was over twenty standard feet tall)

    41. The room was roughly two elves tall, maybe eight wide as well as long


    42. why would he treat her so roughly, hauling her out of the cave without even a word? At the very least, Andrastus would have untied her first


    43. said the guard roughly! “Wait here"


    44. “Don’t you tell my mother I did that,” he cried roughly


    45. They followed the furrow for as far as it went and then started to climb between the boulders, heading roughly towards the beacon


    46. Most of the boulders ahead of them were roughly the same shape


    47. “Behind that trunk, now!” yelled Richard, roughly grabbing Jenny’s shoulders and almost carrying her ahead of him


    48. “That’s roughly the direction of the dust storm


    49. “How far now?” asked Lucy, after they had walked roughly another kilometre and a half


    50. Aspen yanked her arm roughly from Sebastian’s grip












































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    Synonyms for "roughly"

    about approximately around close to just about more or less or so roughly some rough rudely cruelly rounded off in round numbers

    "roughly" definitions

    (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct


    with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')


    with rough motion as over a rough surface