Sentence examples for a rough man from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a rough man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is tough, unrefined, or has a rugged demeanor.
Example: "Despite his reputation as a rough man, he had a kind heart and was always willing to help those in need."
Alternatives: "a tough guy" or "a rugged individual".

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"He was a rough man on the colored man," Mr. Johnson said.

She stayed on pitch and grew unnervingly quiet in the end verses of the Bessie Smith, turning the song, about refusing a rough man's advances, into an extravagant story.

He's a rough man coming from a few years of child abuse, so he gets angry quite quickly and reacts before he thinks.

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I'd call Holbrooke an "idealistic neo-Kissingerian" — a man for a rough world.

Her father, a coffee salesman, was a big, rough man who could bend spikes in his hands, could do six things at once, liked to tell jokes all night, and was proud of a mark on his forehead where a stallion had once bit him.

"It was just rough, man, a lot of fights," he said.

Dr. Eustis was Secretary of War — rather a rough, blustering man; Mr. Gallatin, a tip-top man, was Secretary of the Treasury; and Mr. Hamilton of South Carolina, a pleasant gentleman, who thought Mr. Madison could do nothing wrong, and who always concurred in every thing he said, was Secretary of the Navy".

Other accounts describe the kelpie when appearing in human form as a "rough, shaggy man who leaps behind a solitary rider, gripping and crushing him", or as tearing apart and devouring humans.

Like, man, if you let them oversleep they going to have a rough day, man.

Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

"It's rough, man.

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