Sentence examples for rough crowd from inspiring English sources

Fred, you're a rough crowd.

She had joined a rough crowd.

Emily acted out, hanging with a rough crowd.

She began bartending, smoking, hanging with a rough crowd.

Obama's "We must lift ourselves to a higher place" trope doesn't work on this rough crowd.

But by the time he was 11 he was running with a rough crowd.

"We've faced some pretty rough crowds, but I hope we've been able to convince them," said Thomas Kornegay, executive director of the Port of Houston Authority, who prefers not to speculate on the outcome of the election.

If she cursed like a sailor, then sailors are an even rougher crowd than I thought.

"Fifteen years ago, when this tournament started, it was a rough shark crowd," Mr. Gershowitz said.

"Chicago was a tough, rough sports crowd, but there were definitely some occasions when it was 'woah, too far.' "It just makes it all the more enjoyable when it works out the way it did there.

You can almost see the gleam in his 80-year-old eye as he dispatches four thugs, led by an Amazonian sadist named Rose, to break the wrists of a young glass blower who runs afoul of a rough racetrack crowd in SHATTERED (Putnam, $25.95).