Sentence examples for rough house from inspiring English sources

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rough house

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Alternative spelling of roughhouse

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I suggested lots of good things — the feast, the "rough house," the boys on the run-away trolley, the serio-comic initiations, etc., but none were used.

Both sides were guilty of rough house manoeuvres and the solo striker Kyle Lafferty was on the receiving end of his fair share.

The moneybags former Tory MP was spotted out in Nottingham on Saturday evening, mixing with the hoi-polloi at "Enter the Rough House", a cage fighting tournament held in the city's Harvey Haddon Sports Centre.

According to the historian Peter Hennessy, the late Alan Watkins "observed that [PMQs] began its long decline into parliamentary rough house during the 12 months when Wilson enjoyed such sport at the expense of the noble stag at bay in the person of the former earl [Douglas-Home] across the dispatch box".

However, the Latvian side were on the back foot immediately and resorted to terrible rough house tactics, ending a one-sided match with nine men.

Metz explores the tedium of life on the base, where the troops play first-person-shooter video games, watch Internet porn, lift weights, and affectionately rough house.

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But one day, I was walking through a rough housing estate in Glasgow and it hit me!

Various human factors are codified, too, including "problems in relationship with in-laws," "sibling rivalry," "rough housing and horseplay," and "hostility towards and scapegoating of child".

Maybe, but this is an area that nonetheless contains some surprises: Florianópolis has no slums (although there are isolated areas of rough housing) and low crime rates.

Never one to miss a chance to play action man, Mr Sarkozy rushed to a rough housing estate near Paris after a child of north African origin was murdered.

Early one morning, Fernanda heard a knock at the door of her home in the village of Ocurague, a handful of rough houses high in the mountains of the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa.

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