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How to use rough in a sentence

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Scott drove into the rough and had to lay up, but he pitched to six feet and, crucially for his morale, holed for a half to keep him level.
The actual courtship and spawning are not at all violent or rough compared to some other labyrinth fish.
This is a rough number, because it includes emeritus professors, associate, assistant, lecturers, and adjuncts.
As he examined the excellent facilities and looked out over the rough waters along the quays yesterday, he vowed to remain champion.
That's interesting, because in a way that's a very writerly method, in that you did your rough draft and then your final draft.
She wrapped her rough fingers round the soft material of the bag and bought it back to her original sitting place.
It could be the dapper K-pop starlet with her entourage, ostensibly here to rough it a bit for the hovering cameras.
Celebrities who can rough it on the streets with the homeless are okay in my book.
Therefore, the working model presented provides only a rough picture of what is really going on.
Being here made me realize what I was missing by being rough with you and knocking you around and flirting with other girls.
Careful not to make a sound to disturb his two fellow inmates, he pulled the rough woollen blanket up towards him and tried to sleep.
Seconds later, his face is thoroughly cleansed by a rough tongue accompanied by a myriad of woofs and laughter.
The red ink can also be read as a rough approximation of America's indebtedness to the rest of the world.
The woodlands behind the house provide the habitat for roe deer, pheasants, woodcock, and pigeons which form the basis for a small rough shoot.
Woods opts for a three wood instead of a driver and smashes the ball into the first cut of rough on the left.
Woods found the rough with an iron at the first, thereby setting the tone for his concession of two strokes in his opening three holes.
A half-hour walk along the rough track on the right of the lochan takes you to the base of the buttress.
He had to endure a 27-mile ride in a springless wagon over rough roads to a railhead at Guiney Station.
And the car handled beautifully even on the rain-slicked and sometimes rough mountain roads I was driving.
We must celebrate the real world, the rough world, the natural human and human nature red in tooth and claw.
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This wifey from a rough part of town goes along to the family planning clinic.
The Cityboys formed a rough circle, ignoring the rain of lead that fell on them from above.
Dust films are a light powder of clay and silt-sized particles that adhere to rough surfaces and rock fractures.
He has been either been sleeping rough or staying at friends' houses when they are able to put him up.
They then proceeded to hammer the rough edges off the stone and shape it into a rough rectangular solid in preparation for sawing.
When the team embarked on a trek through Texas, parts of its game were rough and ragged.
Just give the cooler a light rough up with a wire brush or green scotch pad and then wipe with prepsol, paint with heatproof and she's apples.
By slow, painful steps I clambered to my feet, wobbling uncertainly on the rough wooden floor.
The young fruit of apples and grapes can also develop rough skin due to powdery mildew.
The silky fabric bunching and snagging against the rough calluses of work burned into my fingertips.
Hope would grow up in a kind and loving family, and forget her mother was ever a rough teenage tramp on the streets of Glasgow.
A serpentine flow meanders through formations of smooth pahoehoe lava and rough aa lava, the same forms common in basalt lavas.
The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster.
Civil aviation officials said there was little air traffic control could do and indicated the pilots were trying to avoid rough weather.
Keeping a relatively tight formation in rough air was physically taxing, especially if you were flying wingman positions in a six-ship flight.
Major Hilary Evans was a prisoner of war escapee, who lived rough in Italy's hills and mountains to avoid recapture.
His big rough hand completely circled her throat, adding pressure to her windpipe.
He set his feet firmly apart and reaching forward, gripped the rough holds.
Weakly she attempted to hold herself upright by clutching at the rough bricks.
The rough and unkempt textures of the horses coats attests to their wildness.
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A rough ride awaits any driver who cooks his brakes, charging and jinking through the corner combinations.
Whether you would rather race touring cars around Brands Hatch or hop Baja Beetles over rough dirt tracks, the choice is yours.
After gun drilling, the rough bore must be reamed to establish the desired internal diameter and to improve surface finish.
But those benefits can only be sustained when trade remains in rough balance.
This can be tolerated in rough work or easily corrected with a second pass of the rabbet plane on its side.
She's gone for rough boys in the past but maybe she's trying to change her image.
The graceful lines of the woodwork seemed at odds with the rough hands that wielded the tools.
You don't see the real image formed by the camera lens, but you get a rough idea of what is in view.
Hard, smooth surfaces are more sound-reflective than rough surfaces, or ones that are covered with fabric or acoustic materials.
Now she shares her bay with three dayboats and a couple of other safari boats, and a rough jetty stretches almost to her mooring.
New passenger jetties will be added to prevent potential accidents during rough conditions.
The rind is rough and woolly and the flesh harsh and unpalatable, with an astringent, acidulous taste.
Rustic country decorating includes the use of natural woods, aged surfaces, rough finishes and simple lines.
To make the pastry, briefly whiz the butter, flour and sugar in the food processor until it is rough crumbs.
There are a variety of reasons why these farmers and growers feel they are being given a rough deal.
His wrists ached as the rough rope cut into them and even his ankles were lashed together tightly with no room to spare.
The government just finished drawing up a rough plan for streamlining and rationalizing the corporations at the end of last year.
He was a stout older Scot by the name of Ian, with whiskers of a beard, and a rough voice, but had a kind heart.
The difference in horsepower per cylinder is the cause of rough running at lean mixtures.
The rough winters of Norway nurtured the forest cat's vitality, resourcefulness and sensible, semi-long, water-repellent coat.
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This is the classic method using oatmeal rather that porridge oats and is my favourite because of its rough texture and lingering flavour.
As a result, the engine would run rough due to the lean mixture at all cylinders.
The passage from Ireland was quite rough with the vessel encountering storm force winds and high seas for days crossing the Bay of Biscay.
Voicing Yosemite Sam was rough on the throat because of Sam's sheer volume and raspiness.
We were up quite high on the southern side of the Uldale, a flank of rough rank grasses, rushes, and countless seepage and springs.
The set-up consists of a large hopper of sand placed above a rough inclined plane.
The jarrah tree has rough grayish brown bark with vertical grooves, which sheds in long strips.
The rough stucco was replaced with random-length tongue-and-groove boards to create an old-fashioned look.
There were regular casualties to the foxes which ranged over the rough hills.
Then a friend of mine has been having a pretty rough period on account of his brother's illness.
There will be some shiny drippy marks that look almost like varnish on the rough edges of the slab if the stone is resined.
I remember one particularly rough whale-watching trip where everyone felt queasy.
The quarrymen had developed long curving saws to make the rough shapes of the stones in situ.
And even though you pretend to be rough and tough, nobody likes to see themselves referred to as nether parts of human or animal anatomy.
Financiers aren't used to such rough treatment from conservative Republicans.
Jack was livid but went easy on him as Frank bursts into tears quite readily now after the rough handling he got on the culture review.
The pearly grey colour and rough texture forms an expressive contrast with the smooth white render.
It's a two-hour drive in a Land Rover, then a hard two-hour yomp over very rough ground carrying our myriad equipment.
Thirty percent of rough amber is waste, but some waste amber pieces were used to make pressed amber in the Russian factory.
The terraced square of rough stone blocks follows the terrain, suggesting an odd reminiscence of prehistoric megaliths.
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We tried the bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, however it was a bit rough and not like the wines we were used to in Australia.
Max was so interested in the Citroen he took it for a drive around the rough roads of Mt Taranaki.
Of the three hot, rough rallies in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, this is the best from a drivers' view.
They require a mosaic of heath, blanket bog and wetland, with rough grazing, shrubs and trees for cover.
As a result, the castmembers themselves seem to have ad-libbed most of the week, based on what I imagine was a rough sketch of a few plot points.
Fishermen are tired of bouncing about on rough seas and need a break with more settled water and good landings.
They were fairly large specimens, dressed for the evening in the beaver hats and red flannel shirts favored by rough sporting men.
The materiality of the paint and the sticky pull and release of the printing process showed a rough and ready formalism at work.
The final release of the game is hardly better than the leaked alpha, which they said was nothing but a rough version, that needed polishing.
What we see, though, are not the bright, seductive confections of adland, but the rough timber poles and frames that support these messages.
If there is a sea running, the beach may be a bit rough for swimming, but there is good swimming in the lagoon when the tide is high.
Their families eke out a living from a few goats and what they can grow on rough allotments.
Sutton's reputation as a bit of a lad who likes the rough and tumble ignores a few home truths.
For cutting electrical outlet holes and other small rough sawing, where a powered saber saw will not fit, a self starting keyhole saw is very handy and comfortable to use.
While rearrest rates are not entirely accurate measures of success or failure of a program, they are accepted as rough indicators in evaluation studies.
True love abides and can make it through rough patches and conflict.
No family is perfect and certainly Jeb can attest to that, but a rough national campaign means old baggage gets repacked.
The Jervis Bay area provided plenty of scope for rough paddling, crazy downhill mountain biking, challenging navigation and even an abseil with bikes!
While I feel sometimes like I'm the juggler in a circus, I know that smart marketing and advertising have helped us to continue in business, even in these rough times.
According to the Daily Mail, the diamond was cut from a 236-carat rough diamond found in Botswana.
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Two Darnell crewmembers who were trying to get aboard reached for the accommodation ladder when a surge in the choppy waters caused the two to fall into the rough seas.
They grew close enough together so that reaching from one to the next was never a problem, and the bark was just rough enough to offer a good grip without being abrasive.
Communal life can abrade some of the rough edges of a person, the monks agreed, but in communal living you also learn surprising things about yourself.
One day Rabbit sat down beside a flowering acacia tree and looked up at the bright yellow flowers, the rough bark and the sturdy limbs stretching toward the sun.
Their great old houses overflow with rough medieval furniture, threadbare tapestries and religious relics worn smooth by the touch of generations.
The best report I've heard to date was of good numbers of jewfish coming from the Ballina South Wall in the rough water caused by the wind and rain.
According to contemporary reports, at several of the truces, there were rough soccer matches between the German and British sides.
The big vertical Global Roses in Bloom is all luscious, tumbling, whorling brushwork comprising a rough circular mass of globular, grapelike clusters.
Where there were once rose beds and lawned areas up past Hermit Hole, there is now rough grass which is occasionally and halfheartedly mown and the cuttings left to rot.
Even so, a rough analogy between the two periods is possible.
It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
In the 1950s, hand scrubbing required the use of rough brushes with stiff bristles that abraded the skin and frequently increased bacterial counts.
As with top-quality Brazilian agate, uncut Botswana agate is difficult to obtain because rough material is sold for the production of beads, jewelry, and souvenirs.
The robots can slice through stone and rough out vast blocks of stone while the artisans are sleeping.
The prime minister has also reportedly paid for diction lessons to smooth out her rough Neapolitan accent.
Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a broken home in the rough Dorchester section of Boston.
If a downturn happens early in the first term, things will be rough during that midterm election.
Hernandez was well-known in their rough corpus Christi neighborhood as an unsavory character.
They were quickly able to make sense of how to use aikido for handling rough shoving tactics like what is seen in wrestling, sumo and at the beginning of many street fights.
Not only does this serve to strengthen the car in a crash, but it also allows the car to absorb heavy impacts in jumps and fast driving over rough terrain.
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If we clone deer at all, rather than their racks, we should select animals for duplication based on their ability to get through a rough winter or survive a drought.
On a recent trip to a rough Roman suburb, he apologized for the extra police protection.
She says that, shortly after a rough breakup, she went on a double-date with a man and Cosby and his wife, camille.
The rough grade was thinly plated with permeable sandy loam soils.
Ultimately, they must be inviting communities, not just rough work camps.
This invention relates to an apparatus for suppressing vibrations and quaky movements in the travel of mobile or automotive type cranes such as rough terrain cranes.
And as anyone who has found herself jobless knows, it was a rough landing.
Features include a hydraulic extendible eight-foot stroke, a floating hopper, a self-propelled hydraulic lift, and flotation tires for easy maneuvering on rough terrain.
And while homesickness and a yen to have the support of being the home team in a rough business lured the brothers back, they've set their sights on more travel eventually.
Hitchcock loved to tell stories, elaborate, complicated rough drafts for movies he would never make.
Paul Ryan, introduced to the country last year as something of a boy wonder, is going through a rough patch.
For rough spinous humour few could beat Socrates. In Plato we have this humour toned down into a refined irony.
He had the rough magnanimity of the old English vein, mellowed into tenderness and dashed with a flexible and spinous humor.
These sterigmata are retained and make the twigs rough for several years after leaf fall.
Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.
It is not good to be too tetrical and virulent. Kind words make rough actions plausible.
Aaron didn't appreciate being topped from the bottom, but Joey's voice was so rough Aaron didn't care who was running the show.
To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb.
Dermabrasion involves abrading the skin with a rough surface to remove the upper layers and is chiefly used to treat the face.
These frames are usually constructed of rough trees tightly withed and wedged together.
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Even if they weren't really, the rough edges are sanded away by memory and things become much more appealing.
Still, the numbers give you a rough idea of the ballpark expenditure.
The banlieue setting is rough and rife with violence and drug trafficking.
For the next six months, she sat there day after day, writing a rough draft in the pool parking lot on a yellow legal pad.
Despite a rough start, the team won more games this season than last.
He laid his hard, rough hand assuringly on the shoulder of the frightened child and sought to soothe her fears.
Some strains are non-typeable, and others can be rough or autoagglutinating, making these cultures un-typeable.
The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty.
Even worse than the sand, though, was the grassy bank that comes down between the bunkers, where the rough was so thick it amounted to bogeyland.
A silver bowguard made by Loloma in 1968 has one side rough and unpolished and another highly polished.
So, the momentum alone has been built up quite well for Wimbledon and Nadal still has roughly one week to buff out the rough spots on grass.
Experienced bushbashing motorcyclists prize the rough roads of Cambodia, Laos and northern Thailand.
To stand up in the cockly boats in the rough swirling water was at first rather nervous work, but we soon got not to mind it.
Is not the plain way more easy than the rough and cragged? is not the fair way more pleasant and passable than the foul?
The exception appears in the book's middle, where a different sort of text is accompanied by rough crayonings of a couple making love.
He had trimmed the ends of the axle log into rough rounds, and once the wheels were in place split the ends and placed crosswedges in them.
This union exalted him, wore away the rough edges of his character, emotionalized his mental life.
He always seemed angry and needlessly rough with his work as he fumed and fault-found.
A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
Dr. Tillotson polished over whatever was left rough in the compositions with his smooth language, and flowingness of his easy eloquence.
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This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts.
About three quarters of that rough octagon is the Meseta Central, a vast plateau ranging from 610 to 760 m in altitude.
The rough ground was covered by platforms, mats, and skins on which residents slept.
This shape, which was developed through years of field experience, penetrates ordinary soil efficiently and stands rough use.
When the framework was removed, the new wall was very strong, with a rough surface of bricks or stones.
However, he enjoyed very rough sports and activities that were considered manly.
Figures for casualties during this period are unreliable, but some attempt has been made to provide rough estimates.
There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.
From what I gathered, his mother had been heavily Jesused, and his father had been a rough sort of plainsman.
This ridge is rough and rocky, further worn by the boots of countless walkers.
The rough summit plateau is fringed by crags on all sides with Pikes Crag and Dropping Crag above Wasdale and Rough Crag to the east.
The rough Pennine terrain means that most of Northern England is difficult for growing crops.
He also conducted the first rough experiments on the diffusion of gases, a phenomenon that was first pointed out by John Dalton.
A rough grid pattern can offer a wide variety of routes while still maintaining reasonable speed and frequency of service.
After a long time in rough seas, they landed on the banks of the Tiber River.
With a population of around 59 million, this gives a rough proportion of 7 Pagans per 10,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom.
Giants are rough but generally righteous characters of formidable strength living up the hills of the Basque Country.
The contest is a rough one, with teams fighting to move the bottles over such obstacles as ditches, hedges, and barbed wire.
Because it is so hard and dry, if properly stored and transported, navies' hardtack will survive rough handling and high temperature.
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Clad in a rough garment, barefoot, and, after the Evangelical precept, without staff or scrip, he began to preach repentance.
During this time, with the help of Elizabeth Pigot, who copied many of his rough drafts, he was encouraged to write his first volumes of poetry.
He holed a dramatic shot from the rough from about 50 yards for birdie on the 18th hole, to finish in a tie for fourth.
He made bogey however after finding the right rough with his tee shot and could not get up and down from the back of the green.
He steered by the guidance of his own peculiar moral compass, regardless of the rough waters through which it led him.
Such algorithms are particularly useful when applied to problems whose energy landscape is very rough or has many local minima.
It appeared as though someone in the Battalion must have killed a Chinaman, as the weather continued rough and stormy, with strong wind.
Stone sculpture is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone.
However, the French line was weak near the Ardennes forest, a region whose rough terrain they considered unlikely for the Germans to traverse.
Tijuana is noted for its rough terrain, which includes many canyons, steep hills, and mesas.
The Sudestada usually moderates cold temperatures but brings very heavy rains, rough seas and coastal flooding.
Different types of cairns exist from rough piles of stones to interlocking dry stone round cylinders.
Instead, the operator would listen to many strikes and develop a rough average location.
Rough weather was another major drawback for these designs, but rough sea conditions did not unduly affect Polaris' submerged launches.
Although radiocarbon dating can provide a rough estimate, this is not accurate enough to associate archaeological finds with historical events.
While many films are not as obvious as Disney fairy tales, the plots of many films are based on the rough structure of myths.
Sheltered from the rough seas of the North Channel and the North Atlantic the loch has been an important safe harbour for vessels.
These specialized feet allow chameleons to grip tightly onto narrow or rough branches.
The coral reefs provide red, brown, and green algae for their diet and gives protection from predators and rough storms within the ocean.
They are also found in Europe, where they are called rough dab or long rough dab.
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This construction has several advantages when anchored in deep waters or in rough seas.
The accident happened in rough weather while the tanker Navion Britannica was loading oil from a storage buoy, according to the operator Statoil.
He attempted to set sail on 20 February with 152 merchantmen, but was held back for three days by high winds and rough seas.
Hammond's Transporter worked well initially, but the engine was damaged in rough seas, necessitating the use of an outboard engine.
The old skin breaks near the mouth and the snake wriggles out, aided by rubbing against rough surfaces.
Wood of most firs is considered unsuitable for general timber use, and is often used as pulp or for the manufacture of plywood and rough timber.
Hence most sailing ships preferred the Drake Passage, which is open water for hundreds of miles, despite very rough conditions.
Hence their biological rhythms tend to occur in rough multiples of this period.
In rough water, fresh sea ice is formed by the cooling of the ocean as heat is lost into the atmosphere.
The second type occurs at the bottom of the atmosphere and ocean, where frictional forces are associated with flow over rough surfaces.
Many have a rough sticky texture, which together with a robust but flexible body, helps it to withstand strong water currents.
She must be used to pretty rough champagne if she can drink a glass of wiz and think it is champagne. Not even passion pop is that rough.
The storms last summer washed away parts of the road so we can expect some rough patches up ahead.
The remaining vessels, hindered by rough weather and damaged rigging, were separated.
Claws can be used to interact with rough substrates and reorient the direction of forces the animal applies.
This allows the claws to hook into the rough surface of the bark, opposing the force of gravity.
These rough timetables vary significantly for areas that are at higher elevations or close to the ocean.
A number of rough measures exist, sometimes leading to contradictory results.
During those four days, they were living rough in a shed in a garden in Ryde, having failed to steal a plane from the local airclub.
The stone was quarried and rough axe heads were produced there, to be more finely worked and polished elsewhere.
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These titles are the rough equivalents of European titles, albeit dependent on the actual wealth and prestige of the bearer.
The rough world he lived in was on the cusp of the dying world of Antiquity and the new culture of early medieval Europe.
These charts, actually rough maps, were based on accounts by medieval Europeans who sailed the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts.
It stimulated local production of foodstuffs, rough textiles, and other products for a mass market.
If the walls are rough or uneven, they should be first pricked up, and then floated.
Within months, four ships set sail due west for the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, but a violent storm and rough seas caused the loss of two ships.
They are often smooth and shiny, whilst Western paper has a more rough and matt surface.
However, because the sea was too rough the carpenter swam through the surf and planted the Dutch flag.
On the journey his methods were so rough that most of his men sent a letter of protest to Yakutsk.
This allows a very rough estimate of a horse's age, although diet and veterinary care can also affect the rate of tooth wear.
Nicotine scores almost as highly as opioids on drug effect questionnaire liking scales, which are a rough indicator of addictive potential.
The rough geographical outlines of this same trade route would dominate the pepper trade into Europe for a millennium and a half to come.
The following is a Forth and Bargy song, with a rough translation into English.
The term may have arisen from the notion of a clumsy or rough manner of speaking.
New York's largest imports are oil, gold, aluminum, natural gas, electricity, rough diamonds, and lumber.
Most provinces have rough provincial counterparts to major federal parties.
The women would then spin these rough rovings into yarn wound on a spindle.
The only drawback to that is that the edges of the rough bars were not as well compressed.
When the rough bar was reheated, the edges might separate and be lost into the furnace.
The material has a rough surface, so it can hold platings and coatings better.
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A rough estimate of effort required to redesign and reimplement all of the software suggests that it will take longer than two years.
However, these are only rough estimates, as no figures are available for the period.
From there, it follows a rough southeast course through Millbury, Sutton, Grafton, Northbridge, Uxbridge, Millville, and Blackstone.
West Exchange Street and Exchange Terrace serve as rough boundaries between the two.
The catchment area is a sheepfarm of rough grassland and sphagnum bog in the valley bottom and surrounding fellside.
To left and right, the ends of the fell rise from the surrounding lowlands in smooth and sweeping curves, clad in rough grass.
Of the intervening gills, Scaley Beck was reckoned the most practicable, the other three being overly rough and devoid of interest.
The Ennerdale flanks are steep and rough with areas of crag, the lower slopes being planted with a ribbon of conifers.
Finally on the west rough slopes fall below the rocks of White Napes to the narrow valley of Gable Beck, a tributary of Lingmell Beck.
Stone Cove lies on the Ennerdale side while the rough gully of Aaron Slack runs down toward Styhead Tarn.
The route is rough but allows the ordinary hillwalker to view Napes Needle, Sphinx Rock and many of the famous climbing locations.
From here the ridge descends and gradually broadens into the rough expanse of Thelkeld Common.
Beyond Slight Side is a rough upland with many craggy tops and a number of tarns, before the southward descent finally ends in Lower Eskdale.
A series of steps rise up from Ore Gap whilst the approach from Esk Hause is rough and eroded.
The southern and eastern flanks of The Old Man are composed of rough ground, deeply pockmarked by slate quarries.
There is a Triangulation Pillar on the top, surrounded by rough drystone wall which forms a wind shelter.
Because their crystals are of the rough equal size, these rocks are said to be equigranular.
For many years Seathwaite was a secluded spot, being connected to the main road at Seatoller by a rough track.
Polishing the rough surfaces will have improved the mechanical strength of the axe as well as lowering friction when used against wood.
The altitude and rough terrain of the archaeological sites have protected them from types of damage caused by human settlement in lowland areas.
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Charcoal is used in art for drawing, making rough sketches in painting and is one of the possible media for making a parsemage.
And yet the inhabitants were still expected to travel many miles to church each Sunday, over hills and rough terrain.
Everyone fought in these rough and tumbles for the mastery of what was to become one of the world's largest industries.
Daddy holds, hugs, kisses, and caresses his young daughter but he rough and tumbles, throws around, and mock fights with his little son.
They clinched again, tumbled onto the grass, rough and tumbled, with first one and then the other on top, socking away.
While rough around the edges, the church is really a wonderful place to be.
Rudy's team did not handle last weeks discovery well. They are in for 30 days of rough sledding.
We're running out of money. It's going to be rough sledding from now on, but we'll have to cope.
The fairest diamonds are rough till they are polished, and the purest gold must be run and washed, and sifted in the ore.
A scourer may be in the form of a mesh of wires, a flat piece of a rough fabric, or a pad with a soft sponge-like side and a more abrasive side.
A sometimes rough scrabbly route with a lovely finish on grassy southwest-facing slopes.
The sand that a moment ago felt almost soft as you rubbed it between your fingers now feels rough and scrabbly and scratchy against your belly.
In the 4-toe stock there is a wide gap between the lowest rough and the smooths which come from the same parents.
A short, square-built man, in a rough grey jacket, with a speaking-trumpet in hand, stood in the weather hammock nettings.
Most commonly seen when rough machining work hardening materials such as stainless steels and high-temp alloys.
But while his approach shot was online with the flag it hit a small down slope and raced off into rough at the back of the green.
When army ants use their own bodies to plug tiny potholes in rough trails, the whole colony benefits, a new study has found.
London's story is Kiplingesque in its combination of sentimentality and rough masculine camaraderie.
Dish cloths are rough enough to scrub your cutting board well.
Bossyboots Amy Adams gives Kerry barkeep Matthew Goode a rough ride after she's parted from boyfriend Adam Scott in Dublin.
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Soon, she recognized the classic white patch of rough skin on top of the whale's head and knew she was looking at a North Atlantic right whale.
These mass particles are moving along rough circle in vertical plane on which the two sided impact limiters of elongation were placed.
The rough collie made her big screen debut in 1943, starring in Lassie Come Home alongside Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor.
Poppy had lost weight quickly, was dehydrated and LAST week, I told you about Poppy, an amiable but elderly rough collie.
The Clachnaharry's regular customers include retrievers, lurchers, West Highland terriers, rough collies and mixed-breeds.
Middle-class breeds include golden retrievers, old English sheep dogs and rough collies.
These three lovely dogs are rough collies who live with Jennifer Macanna in Innellan, Dunoon.
Phil, along with his wife and daughter Stephanie, 18, have been breeding rough collies for five years.
She owned three rough collies and thought of the waste from the hair she collected from grooming them.
I've arrowed a variety of rough fish in situations that are as different as the scaly targets themselves.
Only catfish and rough fish may be taken from June 15 until March 15, sunrise to sunset, on Gillham, Dierks and De Queen lakes.
Phillips also expects to see a vast improvement in the lake's fishery, which currently supports mostly rough fish, mainly carp and buffalo.
Most of the tournaments are for rough fish, and they're broken down into either the heaviest stringer or the total number of fish.
The rough music of protest carrying them in under half an hour to the Gleneagles' steel fence.
A New Retainer Clip is also available to secure the assembly for the rough sleeper.
But despite her ordeal kindly Alma asked a judge at the city's crown court to help the rough sleeper rather than punish him.
The new England-wide hotline and website allows concerned members of the public to help connect a rough sleeper with local advice and services.
The cost of housing a rough sleeper in a hostel can be pounds 40,000 a year.
So there's some rough language, a little bit of rudery and lots of one-liner jokes.
This western face of Clough Head, is steep, rough and rocky.

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How to use rough in a sentence

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