How to Use rough cut in a Sentence

rough cut

noun

• In that time, the cast got to see a rough cut of episode one.
  — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
• Now [those scenes were] cut out from the director’s cut, not from the rough cut.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Mowing a wet lawn can lead to scalping and an overall rough cut.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2024
• The first real rough cut was three hours, 20 minutes.
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
• Our sales strategy was to push for big pre-buys, using rough cut clips.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
• Months later, Guadagnino sent a rough cut of the film, four and a half hours in length.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2022
• It’s supposed to be a rough cut and Truman decides what goes in.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
• It is cut, then there is a rough cut with temp music, and then the composer [tries] to fit it in.
  — Ashley Foster, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2023
• The version shown that night was Lively’s preferred rough cut of the movie.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Alan Menken yesterday, who watched a rough cut of the movie and was so excited.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
• When Yellin showed a rough cut to Byrne, in Brooklyn, Byrne clapped.
  — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
• The set was made almost entirely out of raw rough cut wood with little ornament.
  — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 12 June 2024
• There was no Le Pew footage in a rough cut of the new film viewed three months ago by Deadline sources.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• Ten projects in various stages from development to rough cut.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 9 May 2024
• Williams watched a rough cut and agreed to meet with Winer about score possibilities.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al.com, 3 July 2019
• Each showcase consists of four projects presented in the form of a pitch and a 10-minute excerpt of the rough cut.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 10 May 2022
• Editing was to take place almost in real time, as a video rough cut that could then be applied to the celluloid version.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2024
• Producers need to provide a rough cut of at least 60 minutes at any stage in the post-production process.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
• Once filmmakers completed the 28-day shoot, a rough cut was smuggled out of Iran.
  — Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
• Incredibly, the pair didn’t see a rough cut of the show until their work was virtually finished.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 3 Nov. 2022
• After strings were added to the track, Zimmer made sure that Eilish and Finneas got to see a full rough cut of the film.
  — Amos Barshad, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2021
• Bat boxes are typically constructed of rough cut wood, which is easier for bats to cling to than a smooth surface.
  — Lauren David, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• But by the time the filmmakers were ready to premiere a rough cut in 2003, no one was interested.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021
• Working from a rough cut and Welles’ detailed notes, Marshall and his team were finally able to complete the project.
  — Keith Phipps, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
• Timoner screened a rough cut with a small audience and quickly concluded that her father was a movie star.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
• Ambrose remembers one moment in particular, early on, when the cast got together to watch a rough cut of an episode.
  — Justin Kirkland, ELLE, 17 Mar. 2023
• Antonio Esparza showed Talarico a rough cut of a video from the Paxton event.
  — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• Fish obliged with a rough cut, without really knowing the ramifications.
  — Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2019
• The idea for the book came about when the Malones were in New Hampshire to screen a rough cut of Burns’ documentary.
  — Kelly Dearmore, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2020
• The jury president arrived in Morocco with a rough cut of his latest film, which, as luck would have it, starred another juror.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 25 Nov. 2025