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How to use rough-and-ready in a sentence

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Khaki was the rough-and-ready fabric for the uniforms of the British Indian Army.
And because these old motorcycles are so particular to the rough-and-ready, irrepressibly hip East Village, the riders are also partisan.
Its newer restaurants are a departure from the rough-and-ready fish houses of yesteryear.
As a rough-and-ready rule, a small business may be thought of as one that is independently owned and operated and not dominant in its field.
Gehry going back to his youth of rough-and-ready steel and untreated plywood.
That is a rough-and-ready compromise but better than the current self-defeating prohibition.
The battle was brief and it ended with most of the rough-and-ready revolutionaries bolting at the first cannon shots.
These nation-wide policies, being rough-and-ready and improvised, have been generally ineffective.
With conventional roller locks this can only be remedied on a rough-and-ready basis by resetting the rollers, which can take up to 30 minutes and generate a lot of waste.
Runaround's rough-and-ready approach would probably be considered too much for modern audiences, who seem to like their presenters as unthreatening and child-like as possible.
To soak up a little of the famous Nashville atmosphere, head for the honky-tonks in Downtown, a row of rough-and-ready bars all playing covers of your favourite country songs.
But when we met in the ITN offices – he was dressed like a rough-and-ready farm hand – I was won over by how passionate he was.
I tried it in a rough-and-ready restaurant in Korea.
The B. P. P., in its rough-and-ready way, is part of a data revolution.
Thus, we can attribute a level of influence of STEM or SSH to each major industry category, recognizing that this is at best a rough-and-ready analysis.
Surprisingly, the Queen chose the rough-and-ready lumber town of Ottawa over the established cities of Toronto, Kingston, Montréal and Québec City.
And as we are in election year, rough-and-ready solutions are required, not the compromise that it takes three to four years to reach in Switzerland.
Given the exploratory nature of our work, only the main aspects of the conceptual basis of this approach are sketched, and very rough-and-ready estimates for inputs and outputs reported.
If one is stopped on the highway, one would rather hand one's purse over to a courteous knight than to the rough-and-ready bludgeoner.
Now, there was a sort of rough-and-ready law in Ireland in those days, which was of great convenience to persons desirous of expeditious justice.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He took a liking to the rough-and-ready straightforwardness of the American.
And many of his images were much more of the rough-and-ready, than of the classical, order.
You are one of the rough-and-ready order, who are never late.
He was simply an uncultured, ignorant, rough-and-ready, Irish-American backwoodsman.
Then came the rough-and-ready sentence of the camp-followers.
McCook and Wood swear like pirates, and affect the rough-and-ready style.
Their organisation is rough-and-ready, like themselves, and simple too.
Richard could not adopt that rough-and-ready way out of his difficulty.
He was a tall man, over six feet high, and broad in proportion, and he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels.
The Connaught folks are somewhat rough-and-ready with their dead.
In modern terms, it is a simple, rough-and-ready attempt to solve that constant problem of politics, how efficient government is to be combined with popular control.
Bruce said his team showed it in abundance, especially Rowan Vine who, scampering about and teasing the defence like a rough-and-ready street urchin, seemed to enjoy it.
They ran in gaily, and after a long wait in the drawing-room sat down to the rough-and-ready lunch, every dish in which concealed or exuded cream.
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