ROUGH in a Sentence

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For a moment Scarlett went faint, already feeling rough hands thrusting themselves into her bosom, fumbling at her garters.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROUGH
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rough
 a.  not perfected; having or caused by an irregular surface
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "He has a rough tongue, but he is a gentleman," Gerald had definitely arrived.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Men were rough of speech and often drunk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  By this time Scarlett was boiling, ready to rear like a horse at the touch of a strange rough hand on its bridle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Your mother agreed, providing he was able to jump the pasture fence, for, she said, there would be a lot of rough riding to be done in the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  And even if you reached Jonesboro safely, there'd be a five-mile ride over a rough road before you ever reached Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  "You little fool," and his voice was swift and rough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  "It's only a cow," said Scarlett, her voice rough with fright.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  For a moment Scarlett went faint, already feeling rough hands thrusting themselves into her bosom, fumbling at her garters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Through the blur, she saw the men moving toward the doorway, heard the sergeant calling commands in a loud rough voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  But if you'd been there much, you'd know there's a mighty rough bunch of Scallawags and Republicans and Carpetbaggers been runnin things recently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  She turned away and started back toward the house across the rough fields, twisting her hair into a knot upon her neck.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  This hand was rough from work, brown with sunburn, splotched with freckles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  But for a woman to leave the protection of her home and venture out into the rough world of men, competing with them in business, rubbing shoulders with them, being exposed to insult and gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  It was bad enough that she had intruded herself among strange rough workmen, but it was still worse for a woman to show publicly that she could do mathematics like that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  Scarlett thought of the kind, gnarled hands of Mammy worn rough in Ellen's service and hers and Wade's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  Here is a rough and ready measure-ment.
17  The bill is in for a rough ride in the Senate.
18  Jobless and penniless , he had to sleep rough in the fields for several months.
19  You can get a rough idea of the size of the room by pacing it out.
20  The rough cloth prickled my skin.
21  The skin on her hands was hard and rough.
22  The monkey's skin has a rough feel.
23  The wanderer has to sleep rough.
24  Rugby is a very rough sport.
25  This instrument will not stand rough usage.
26  There are still a few rough places on the surface of the table that need to be planed down.
27  Marius and his fellow students hurriedly improvised a rough barricade to block police access to the students' quarter.
28  You could see a rough path descend like a steep stair into the plain.
29  The stonecutter decided to improve the rough diamond by providing it one bigger facet among several sides.
30  The company offered a rough outline of how a deal could be structured in Matthews.