How to Use rough in a Sentence

rough

1 of 3 adjective

• He trimmed the rough edge of the paper.
• They've hit a few rough spots in their marriage.
• We were a bit shaken from the plane's rough landing.
• Despite a rough start, the team won more games this season than last.
• We traveled over rough dirt roads.
• They hiked through rough terrain.
• He went through a rough patch after his divorce.
• It's been a rough year for the Windy City in terms of pests.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• The legal case made a rough stretch of French's life rougher.
  — USA Today, 25 July 2023
• It’s been a rough few years for Tyson on the chicken front.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
• Swift has had a rough go at the Rio portion of her tour.
  — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• Despite the condition of the home, Haun had a rough idea of the value of the lot.
  — Archway Homes, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
• It's been a rough couple of weeks for Davante Adams on the stat sheet.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
• But for the world, 2023 has been a rough year, with evil on the march in far too many corners of our globe.
  — Jim Geraghty, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
• Then, after a 10-minute wait on the tee box of the par 3 eighth hole, Jiménez’s tee shot found the deep rough short right of the green.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2023
• Yams Yams are a dry, starchy root vegetable with rough skin that looks a bit like the bark of a tree.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2023
• Parts of the road are unpaved and can become rutted and rough.
  — Paul McHugh, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• My cheeks looked smooth and glassy, instead of textured and rough.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 23 June 2023
• Matthew hit a bit of a rough patch after wrapping Zoey 101.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 27 July 2023
• The festival got off to a rough start this year and may have proved foretelling.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• Older writers would get rough or chase the younger kids.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
• There are also what may be a few rough schematics dating to the Stone Age.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• Alycia Debnam-Carey has had a rough go of it over the last decade onscreen.
  — Keely Weiss, ELLE, 6 June 2023
• Even through all that rough-housing, the mouse toy looked as good as new at the end of the testing period.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
• By all accounts, 2023 was shaping up to be a rough year for Shakira.
  — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Members of the search and rescue team crossed rough terrain to reach the missing hikers.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 May 2023
• Applebee’s is trying to bounce back from a rough few years.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
• In the short video shared on TikTok, Gomez works out a rough sketch of the song at the piano and appears to have most of the first two verses written.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2023
• That has gotten me through some pretty rough patches in my life.
  — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• Made from tough rubber that holds up to rough play, this ball is sure to become your dog’s favorite toy.
  — Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023

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rough

2 of 3 noun

• He showed me a few roughs of the new building.
• He hit his drive into the rough.
• His lob wedge from a fluffy lie in the rough came out soft, short and in a bunker.
  — Doug Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
• An onion, or maybe half an onion, peeled and rough chopped.
  — Paula Forbes, GQ, 9 June 2018
• Smith went from the right rough on the opening hole to a back bunker and missed a 12-foot par putt.
  — Dallas News, 7 Jan. 2022
• Woods hit eight drives into the left rough and four into the right rough.
  — Randy Youngman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• The thick rye rough — which Woods hasn’t played out of in 12 months — didn’t cause many problems.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2018
• Garcia drove into the right rough on the par-5 first hole and bogeyed.
  — Dallas News, 30 May 2021
• Koepka mis-hit a ball out of the green-high rough on 18 into a bunker right in front of him.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2021
• The left rough awaited him on No. 4 as well, as did a greenside bunker on No. 7.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 27 Feb. 2022
• Ended up being in the rough there and not making birdie there.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2021
• Playing the sixth hole, Thomas’ tee shot landed in the right rough, where some tree branches blocked his path to the green.
  — John Davis, azcentral, 31 Jan. 2020
• Drama on 17 as his drive caught the right rough, but McIlroy carved it out onto the green.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 19 July 2019
• Overall, the result was one rough and tumble piece of wood.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2018
• On the drivable par-4 No. 16, for example, his tee shot with a 3-wood went into the right rough.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2020
• That’s where a lot of those guys that shine as diamonds in the rough really come through.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2020
• On Friday, DeChambeau smashed a shot that landed about 20 yards short of its green and just left of the fairway in some high rough.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
• Schauffele, who birdied the 18th in regulation to force a playoff, had to lay up from the rough near a bunker, and his 12-foot birdie putt stayed just right of the hole.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Woods was busy putting his tee shot in the right rough then being too aggressive with his approach.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 14 June 2018
• Champ managed to chip out onto the primary rough, then scoot up the fairway.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
• Woods flew his tee shot past the green and into a pit of rough, reaching the green in three before a two-putt for double bogey.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 13 June 2019
• At 18, Piercy drove into the right rough and lashed a rescue-club shot that rolled into the left fairway bunker.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
• Just ahead of him, Koepka only parred the hole after driving the rough, and so Woodland walked to the 15th tee with a two-shot lead cushion.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2019
• Part of the cache cut from the Lesotho Legend, a 910-carat rough, the trio of stones is free of inclusions and exhibits remarkable brilliance.
  — Tanya Dukes, ELLE Decor, 26 Sep. 2022
• Smoltz had four birdies and eight bogeys in a 76. With Del Negro in the middle of the fairway in the playoff, Smoltz hit a low drive behind large trees in the right rough.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
• Once a year, golfers should be pushed to their limits in brutal conditions — yes, even on bone-dry greens, in crazy wind and with super-high roughs.
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 18 June 2018
• For four straight days, Stricker made quick work of Warren’s bent-grass fairways and greens while staying far from the fescue rough, grown out to 3½ inches in some places.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2019
• Since meeting with Trump, Modi learned that India has hit an economic rough-patch.
  — Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
• His wedge shot on No. 12, from the right rough, landed on the front of the green, rolled and rolled and rolled … and then disappeared into the hole for eagle, abruptly vaulting Homa one shot behind McNealy.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2021
• The woman artist, so often brought in as much as trinket as talent, has been right there, a diamond in the sexist musical rough all along.
  — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023

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rough

3 of 3 verb

• He was called for roughing the kicker.
• There were 34 roughing calls through the first three weeks and 19 in the three weeks since the call.
  — Rob Maaddi, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Use the towel to dry the call quickly and then rough it up again.
  — Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 4 Mar. 2020
• The cop that roughed him up doesn't have the temperament for the job.
  — Maggie Angst, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
• Last season, when the going to rough against the Bucks in the playoffs, the Heat wilted.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• The 49ers sacked Mahomes four times and roughed him up a few others.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2020
• The 25-year-old rookie was roughed up for three runs on three hits and as many walks.
  — Skip Snow, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 14 Sep. 2019
• Toss the potatoes around in the pot to rough up their outside layer.
  — Meredith Deeds Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
• There’s a nice bit of acidity here and the tannins will rough up the roof of your mouth.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2019
• One trick is to take sandpaper to the bottom of your shoes to rough them up for the snow or ice.
  — Joyann King, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Dec. 2019
• For the dog dad who likes to rough it (or ruff it...), this dog sized sleeping bag is the perfect gift.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• Except roughing the passer was called and the Saints kicked a field goal to tie the game and then won it.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• But with Kahani Paradise as your base, there’s no need to rough it.
  — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2023
• The Rams’ Jared Goff is an even worse option against a Bears defense that roughed him up last year.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2019
• The V60 Cross Country doesn’t ask its occupants to rough it.
  — Jason Fogelson, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• But no way was that one roughing the passer against the Broncos.
  — Andy Nesbitt, For The Win, 15 Sep. 2019
• Von Miller’s roughing-the-passer penalty gave the Jaguars 15 free yards (to their 41).
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2019
• Harvey started for Salt Lake and was roughed up for eight hits and eight runs in 2 2/3 innings.
  — Maria Torres, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• And when opponents have tried to rough him up, Poole has ignored them.
  — Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 12 July 2019
• But their reimagining of the tune makes it their own, roughing up all the smoothness of the original.
  — Chuck Arnold, Billboard, 9 June 2018
• For: Eco-conscious men looking for a thorough clean that won’t rough their skin up.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Shane Lee was flagged for roughing Bo Nix on a second-down play early in the fourth quarter.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 1 Dec. 2019
• Emmett and Brandon, generally the two good guys of this series, go to Reg — the gang chief — to rough up the track coach?
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2019
• Pomeranz, a former Rockie, has had a bad season and was roughed up in his last start.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 23 June 2019
• This means that cast members might have to rough it out under the stars at the early stages of the renos, regardless of rain, hail or shine.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• Higuera came through with seven shutout innings while Stanley was roughed up for nine hits and three runs in 4⅔ frames.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2020
• Ariana Grande is ready to rough it in the first video promo peek at her upcoming run as a coach on The Voice.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 July 2021
• Despite the isolated setting, guests don’t go there to rough it.
  — John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2020
• Then a roughing the kicker penalty gave the Irish another set of downs and 15 free yards.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
• Even for those who aren’t keen to rough it, the wildlife and natural beauty are powerful draws.
  — Robert Annis, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024