Sentence examples for is roughly speaking from inspiring English sources

'My life is roughly speaking over.

That is, roughly speaking, what Asia's ageing archipelago is starting to do.

Just as an elephant is, roughly speaking, a larger but more energy-efficient version of a gorilla, big cities are thrifty versions of small ones.

The result is, roughly speaking, a marriage of Ballet Shoes, The Magic Faraway Tree and Mr Benn, with, one suspects, a hint of autobiography.

After that, his progress is, roughly speaking, as follows: some more theatre, a few very successful films, a lot of celebrity parties and shared lavatory cubicles, some less successful films, a spectacularly hopeless attempt to be a pop star, a voiceover part in Shrek 2. My summary may not be chronologically coherent, but neither is Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins.

Thus, where the Skidelskys are prepared to leave certain liberal assumptions unchallenged, Sandel wants to draw attention to the ways in which the underlying liberalism of the marketplace wipes away a horizon of ethical significance – which is, roughly speaking, what the Skidelskys mean by the good life.

This sounds plausible to many people, because it's roughly speaking what happened to Greece.

"You'd not have liked thinking anyway," was, roughly speaking, their awkward group response.

There were, roughly speaking, two ways in which Obama managed to change the electoral calculus for Democrats.

The "broadbanders" are, roughly speaking, pro-European, though not necessarily happy with the present economic policies of the European Union.

There are, roughly speaking, five main areas of music discovery technology, all of which have close ties to your smartphone and/or tablet.