Rougher Sentence Examples

Manners at that time were rougher than at present.

The lurcher is a dog with the general shape of a greyhound, but with a heavier body, larger ears and rougher coat.

Day-Lewis is of Irish and Jewish descent, which subjected him to teasing and bullying by some of the rougher boys in the neighborhood.

The shirt would still be linen, but of a thicker, rougher weave.

Girls with gender identity disorder are bored by ordinary female pastimes and prefer the rougher types of play typically associated with boys, such as contact sports.

While it can be tempting to spend as little as possible on a swimsuit that will be outgrown by next year, keep in mind that kids are often much rougher on their clothes - swimsuits included - than grownups are.

If you wish to be a captain but prefer to be rougher around the edges, then you'll certainly want long pants and high boots or breeches and loafers.

Mandy Moore plays the lead female role in the film, a young religious woman with an illness who ends up working on a play with one of the school's rougher students.

Tramar Dillard, more commonly known as Flo Rida, was born in Carol City, one of the rougher neighborhoods of Miami.

Southern soul - or Memphis soul, as it is sometimes called - had a rougher edge than Motown.

Things are getting rougher.

The sagas of the north are rougher and coarser than those of the west, but have a good deal of individual character.

Anyways, the finished versions sound really cool, a bit rougher than the album but still crunchy and melodic.

Irish hare is also recorded from the rougher grasslands.

The co-occurrence matrix itself also appears to vary between the surfaces with the rougher surface producing the more disperse matrix.

The group are discussing slug control, which could cause some conflict with rougher seedbeds.

A slender rougher pasture leads to the brow; only vestiges of this old enclosed way remain.

He is called by Hermogenes 6 xpLetvos Anµoa8 vns, a metaphor taken from barley compared with wheat, or beer compared with wine, - a Demosthenes whose strength is rougher, without flavour or sparkle.

The characteristic diameter of high spatial autocorrelation is much smaller for these rougher surfaces.

Both transept gables have rougher masonry surrounding their windows, perhaps the result of repair.

Most people look for something in the 95-100a range, whereas those travelling rougher terrain while cruising -- dirt paths and the like -- prefer softer wheels (around 80a).

I can put him on the floor, and he'll jump right back on my lap, and do it again, only getting rougher the second time, where he'll lightly bite my chin and try to lick my face like crazy.

Now that he is a toddler, however, he is much more active, and even though he is still growing in leaps and bounds, he's also probably much rougher on his clothing.

Its foliage is beautifully varied in outline, and it should be planted in the rougher parts of the wild garden, and left to itself, as nothing seems to interfere with its rapid growth.

It may be used in the rougher parts of the rock garden, or in the wild garden, and is very hardy.

It is best in the rougher parts of the rock garden or for the wild garden, and grows well under trees or in under-wood.

As it spreads from the root, its true place is the rougher part of the garden, where it is well worth a place.

Suitable for the margins of borders and the rougher parts of the rock garden, but, I fear, not quite hardy.

G. Shallon is too large for all but the rougher flanks of the rock garden, being a vigorous shrub and an excellent covert for game.

It is scarcely refined enough in leaf for the flower garden, but is effective near the rougher approaches of a hardy fernery, in open glades near woodland walks, or in any like position.

S. grandiflora, from Asia Minor and Siberia, is a neat downy plant with showy spikes of reddish-purple or rosy flowers from May onwards, sometimes used in the rougher parts of the rock garden.

The neck of the bass is a lot thicker than the neck of the guitar, and the strings are much thicker as well, so be prepared for things to be a little rougher on your fingers.

Their primary object being the development and peopling of the land, they have naturally been made as cheaply as possible; and as in such cases the cost of the land is inconsiderable, economy has been sought by the use of lighter and rougher permanent way, plant, rolling stock, &c. Such railways are not " light " in the technical sense of having been made under enactments intended to secure permanent lowness of cost as compared with standard lines.

Upon the rougher ground and small farms the ordinary binders are used; upon the great plains, like those of California, a great harvester is used, which has a cutting line 52 ft.

The western portion of the state lies in the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountain system, and is much rougher than western Kansas.

Without being intolerant, the Turks were a rougher and ruder race than the Arabs of Egypt whom they displaced; while the wars between the Fatimites of Egypt and the Abbasids of Bagdad, whose cause was represented by the Seljuks, made Syria (one of the natural battle-grounds of history) into a troubled and unquiet region.

The main roads laid out as arteries of intercommunication by the Romans, suffered to fall into neglect, and revived in the coaching days of the beginning of the 19th century, fell into a second period of comparative neglect when the railway system was completed; but they have recovered a very large share of their old importance in consequence of the development of motortraffic. Following the Roman roads, the high roads of the Eastern Division very frequently run along the crests of ridges or escarpments; but in the Western Division they are, as a rule, forced by the more commanding relief of the country to keep to the river valleys and cross the rougher districts through the dales and passes.