How to Use roughen in a Sentence

roughen

verb

• Her voice, now lowered and roughened by age, serves the material well, adding a grain that makes the track feel genuinely unsettled.
  — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026
• During the process, a bit of friction occurs roughening the surface of the line on a near-microscopic level.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 30 July 2026
• This new rendition stars Hugh Jackman, who is no stranger to roughening up an established protagonist.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
• Gascón lost his December reelection campaign, ushering in a new district attorney, Nathan Hochman, whose deep skepticism of the brothers roughened the road ahead.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
• To address this, Fraunhofer FEP developed a plasma treatment process that roughens the ETFE film substrate at the nanoscale, dramatically improving adhesion for long-term use.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025