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!”.
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 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
• Amanda says roughly 12 women told her they’d been scammed out of cash by Derek.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
• As June draws to a close, yields on junk bonds are on pace to hold roughly steady in the second quarter even as Treasury debt has sold off.
  — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 20 June 2023
• Tests show the Red Hawk’s ejection seat handling crash test dummies lower in the weight range roughly.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
• Peltz received less than one-third of the vote, or roughly 31%, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• So that’s about 664 million people; roughly twice the population of the USA.
  — Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
• The six found so far are roughly two to three times the size of Earth, but with densities closer to the gas giants in our own solar system.
  — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
• The process will take time, as Evergrande has roughly $19 billion in offshore debts.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
• The cerebrum is the largest, comprising roughly 85 percent of the organ’s total weight.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2023
• On average, fires burn roughly 9,600 square miles each year.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
• Making a loop through the lakefront and the Historic Third Ward, participants biked roughly 15 miles.
  — Yash Roy, Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2023
• Buchanan said they will be scheduled for initial hearings roughly 35 to 50 days from filing.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• All this comes roughly two weeks after 8,700 union members walked off the job at Ford's largest factory in Kentucky.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
• The test currently has a shelf life of roughly a year and a half, maybe longer, and the number of poisonings can vary drastically from year to year.
  — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
• The headband-like ribbon is 63 inches long — roughly twice the length of most heatless curling rods — so there's plenty of slack to wrap around long, flowing locks.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
• Overall, the month of July was ahead by 1.4% compared to pre-pandemic times, while the entire box office for the year remains down roughly 20%.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 July 2023
• The Information reports that Meta is paying one star $5 million over two years for roughly six hours of work in a studio.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, services, which are roughly twice the size of goods consumption, are still growing their way back to their pre-pandemic trend.
  — Tshilidzi Marwala, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• Impossible and its chief rival, Beyond Meat, have both laid off roughly 20% of their employees in the past year.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023
• This jacket manages to pack up to roughly the size of a mango without looking wrinkled when it’s unfurled.
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2023
• Walmart raised its full-year profit outlook by roughly 2%.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 18 Aug. 2023
• The building has charged new privately paying one-bedroom tenants far less than the roughly $2,200 allowed, records show.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024