Sentence examples for rather roughly from inspiring English sources

Then he took me rather roughly by the chin.

— August 19 , 1961From a critical essay on parody Passionately creative spirits use parody, rather roughly; and if the tool snaps in their hands, what of it?

— August 19 , 1961________ From a critical essay on parody Passionately creative spirits use parody, rather roughly; and if the tool snaps in their hands, what of it?

It seems at the time of this post's writing, Instagram has exactly 40,026,379 users — or rather, roughly 5% of Facebook's active user base.

As with "The Great Gatsby", the American Dream can be a comforting invention, but one is disabused of it rather roughly.

On the other hand, the Likert scale seems closer to everyday clinical practice where symptoms are assessed rather roughly and mainly compared with baseline.

Rather, it roughly paralleled last Tuesday's less-than-crippling declines in foreign markets.

He added: "I would rather know roughly what I was going to get than have no idea what I was going to get".

But by another measure -- debt as a percentage of stock values and home prices -- the borrowing is rather mild, roughly 14percentt for households and 52percentt for businesses other than financial institutions.

Because the Maryinsky Theater is rather intimate (roughly two-thirds the size of the New York State Theater), as well as richly decorated in blue and gold, Ms. Horgan and others felt that the original decor -- cascades of jewels suspended high above the stage with a series of draperies at the wings -- would look appropriate.

The maximum phase of cycle 24 is of particular interest because the sunspot number was rather small (roughly half of the cycle 23 peak).