Sentence examples for a slightly rough from inspiring English sources

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The custom figurines have a slightly rough texture.

Out on the road, he blamed the carburetor for a slightly rough idle.

In the opening Bach motet, "Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf" (BWV 226), one heard entrances from the boy sopranos that had a slightly rough edge, something that would have been smoothed over in a more resonant hall.

Xi Di Li, on Sims Avenue between Lorong 27 and 25a Geylang In a slightly rough and vaguely alarming ramshackle setting, this sweet shop makes really good peanut brittle, a very traditional Chinese sweet.

Kurt Masur, who was conducting, likes a slightly rough edge on attacks -- a sense of the music being shaken into place, not combed -- but the staggered entries in the first movement of the symphony, coming from an orchestra below full alertness, hit at the music's rhythmic subtleties by making the position of the beat uncertain.

It's six inches high and has a slightly rough surface that, together with the fact that the colour of my green top seems to have bled into my face, neck and arms, makes me look as if I'm covered in a light layer of mould.

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Her sound, though pulsing with expressivity, has a slightly rough-hewn quality.

The whole place, in barren weather, anyway, has a slightly rough-and-ready air, which is what you would expect, considering that Alberto Ruíz-Gallardón Ruíz-Gallardónpulistheayor (who has just been named Spain's justicityinister), a conservative, ordered the burying of the M-30 before there was any plan for a park.

And the cast is wonderful, with Christa Ludwig as a rich-voiced, worldly Marschallin, Gwyneth Jones as a slightly rough-edged but ardent Octavian, Walter Berry as a robust and obsequious Baron Ochs, and Lucia Popp, in heavenly voice, as the most sublime Sophie ever.

Historically speaking, black cats have always had a slightly rougher time of things than more colourful cats.

Breuckelen has a slightly rougher, more intriguing bite — on purpose — and confines itself, Mr. Estabrooke said, to five botanicals, or accents: juniper berry, rosemary, lemon, ginger and grapefruit.

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