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 process took roughly two and a half months.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
• The stock price is up roughly 5% year-to-date.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2025
• For the year, the stock is up roughly 14%.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026
• The stock is still up roughly 31% in the year to date.
  — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
• Waits can run roughly two hours on weekends.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
• So, most games will play roughly the same on both systems.
  — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
• Each one is an oval organ, smooth and firm, roughly the size of a small egg.
  — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
• Texas is home to roughly 7,000 lakes.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
• The full raft of bubbles would be roughly the size of Brazil.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2022
• Flaco defied the odds to live free for roughly a year.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 27 May 2026
• That’s an area roughly the size of Oregon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
• Think about having your dinner at roughly the same time each night.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026
• The bank stock has surged roughly 21% over the past 12 months.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
• The team still has roughly $60 million in salary-cap space.
  — Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• That’s roughly a third of the existing fleet.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Each stone is roughly 13 feet tall, 7 feet wide and 25 tons.
  — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
• The ideal particle size is roughly that of a red blood cell.
  — ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025
• There are roughly three eras of Quentin Tarantino films.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Beyond that, the sheer size of the state required him to run roughly two marathons a day for two weeks.
  — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Sandwiched between the heavy snow and ice will be bands of sleet, adding roughly half an inch in some spots.
  — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
• Biogen slashed the price of Aduhelm roughly in half last month amid anemic sales.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• This amounts to roughly 30 to 50 minutes five times per week.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2025
• The framework is the result of roughly 18 months of joint work.
  — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 13 May 2026