How to Use rough draft in a Sentence

rough draft

noun

• Just weeks after turning in an early rough draft, that blood clot near my heart stopped me cold in my tracks.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
• Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft has marks signaling where the reader should pause briefly, or take a longer pause.
  — Thomas Tweed, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
• Among the handful of messages Cora left in my inbox, the app identified several as layer two and offered a rough draft of possible replies.
  — Cal Newport, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
• With its hard shadows and rudimentary staging, the film plays like a crude rough draft of the much richer career that followed, rounding up his troupe at the time for a semi-sophisticated comedy of manners.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
• That movie, which is included on the Criterion release, plays like a rough draft of the feature to come, with several incidents and lines of dialogue that would make their way into the 1990 version.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026