How to Use roughly in a Sentence

roughly

adverb

• He threw the package roughly in the truck.
• The guard told us roughly that we had to stand back.
• The new product is modeled roughly on an earlier design.
• Roughly translated, it means “hurry up!”.
• The full raft of bubbles would be roughly the size of Brazil.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2022
• Add the vegan cheese shreds to the pan in two piles roughly in the shape of the bread slices.
  — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
• Trump was cordial but to the point on the roughly four-minute call, Shirkey said.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 28 Dec. 2022
• The latter was an achilles heel for Chapek in his roughly two-year run as CEO.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 28 Nov. 2022
• The British pound fell 0.3% against the dollar, while the euro traded roughly flat.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
• Each package has a piece of putty roughly the size of a stick of gum, so one pack doesn’t go very far.
  — Ebony Roberts, Outside Online, 6 July 2022
• Lap 25: Another stoppage, roughly a third of the way through the LCQ!
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 3 Feb. 2025
• For the first time in nearly two decades, the exchange rate between the euro and the dollar is roughly the same.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 8 July 2022
• While roughly 50 or so cruise ships now serve this market, the ultra-luxe segment is still the tip of the spear.
  — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2024
• His return was a month ahead of schedule and McAvoy (a goal in his debut on Nov. 10) roughly the same.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2022
• For roughly the drama’s first half, the goal seems to be to push back on the idea that some kids are simply monsters.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
• The process of fluffing the tree took roughly an hour with a few breaks in between to rest my arms—a nice arm workout!
  — Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2024
• Fun fact: Llamas can carry up to one-third of their weight, or roughly 60 to 80 pounds.
  — Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 18 Aug. 2024
• This means roughly doubling the size of its non-combustible business over the next five years.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• The roughly seven months Gunna spent in jail looms over her.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
• In court, Pinchetti saw a tall man in his 50s—roughly Pinchetti’s own age—who had not a word to say.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Most of the minks have been found in Sunbury, a city with a population of roughly 9,500.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The world’s tiniest rabbit is roughly the size of a softball—a very, very soft softball.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Outside the summer months, the numbers are roughly half that.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
• The incident took place roughly a mile away from the South Point cliff dive on Hawaii Island.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• The House of the Dragon crew had to shoot the Dragonpit coronation, roughly the size of a football field, on a stage one-third that size.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2022
• That’s roughly the same amount as the transportation sector.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• The highway around where the blaze occurred was closed for roughly three hours, the fire department said.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
• The race took roughly four hours and Lecamp and Messner finished the race, side-by-side, in an impressive 7th place.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
• They were set to land at the Columbia County Airport, but crashed roughly 20 miles to the south.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025
• And yet, to take just one example, roughly fifty per cent of Latinos under the age of forty voted for him.
  — Emma Green, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025