Sentence examples for rough surroundings from inspiring English sources

Rather than feeling sorry for itself over its rough surroundings and lack of friends, Turkey has a new policy of "zero problems with the neighbours".

Her club — whose name has been withheld at her request — sits like a fine-cut jewel in rough surroundings, wedged between the Gowanus Expressway and a cement plant.

A lower-cost option: staying in the current Oakland site, where the rough surroundings are somewhat mitigated by freeway and train access.

Growing up in the rough surroundings of a West Virginia mining town had toughened him up, and he did not mind Cleveland coach Paul Brown's overbearing perfectionism.

The scent of perfume, the sound of airplane motors and baroque music, minimalist surroundings, rough and soft surfaces to caress while I eat, and of course the taste of the dish's different elements.

We will be roughing it in surroundings that include concrete floors, and no walls or half walls separating rooms.

In both places, you sit at shared tables in simple but attractive surroundings of rough wooden floors and panelled walls.

The implication is that "the rough edges of its surroundings in the Bronx" were somehow responsible for the garden's neglect and poor planning 15 or 20 years ago.

These qualities have allowed her to thrive in surroundings from rough-and-ready C4 post-pub sketch shows to the more highfalutin world of Radio 4's News Quiz.

The noise matched the surroundings — charming, but rough around the edges.

Those who prefer their food and surroundings a little rougher can try Grizzly House (207 Banff Avenue, 403-762-4055), a Western-kitsch restaurant where you can cook your own combination of exotic game (buffalo, rattlesnake, ostrich) over hot rocks at your table.