Sentence examples for not so rough from inspiring English sources

He has always savoured the Dickensian roughness of betting shops, although they're not so rough these days.

"Not so rough with the little kids," she said, annoyed, and walked away.

Open on all sides to allow the breeze to flow through, the chickees make roughing it not so rough for wilderness camping novices.

The rough road is not so bumpy now.

But in a not-so-rough neighborhood, the Upper East Side, residents say Iraq is, in many ways, an ideal neighbor.

"The negotiations were very difficult at the beginning, but Mrs. Thatcher was able to adopt a pragmatic way of thinking, which led to a not-so-rough transfer of sovereignty," he said.

Proud of his prose, he put his not-so-rough translation before Graves, then watched as Graves adroitly "corrected" his work: superfluous adverbs were swallowed into stronger verbs; adjectives disappeared, as nouns became more particular, more precise.

Forever a part of New York City's history, the Sunday Brunch at the Waldorf Astoria is a gem in the not-so-rough and proof that like a fine wine, some things only get better with time.

As transitions go, the one to kindergarten might not seem so rough.

Had it not been so rough, she would have been out there, diving.

"They don't look so rough," he concluded after a moment.