Sentence examples for roughly dressed from inspiring English sources

"roughly dressed" is a perfectly valid and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone or something that is dressed in a careless or unkempt manner. For example, "She arrived at the theater roughly dressed in an oversized T-shirt and tennis shoes."

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An intermediate method is coursed rubble walling, for which stones are roughly dressed and laid in courses.

Since a dozen or more vendors seeking ice were usually about, it was easy for a roughly dressed stranger to mingle with them on the platform without attracting much attention.

Described as "a large, unlovely polychrome villa", Underhill is triple gabled and built of roughly dressed sandstone and was the first private residence in the world to be lit by electric light.

The early 13th-century curtain wall is mostly of roughly dressed, coursed stone, up to 7 feet thick and 35 feet high, with two sections repaired with ashlar facings.

Approximately 15 buildings in the Triangle were designed by architect Reuven Avraham Rabinowitz, who often added a row of roughly dressed stone to the facade to demarcate each story.

Rubble or third-class masonry construction used stones just as they came from the quarry; squared-stone or second-class masonry used stones that had been roughly dressed and squared; and ashlar or first-class masonry used stones which had been finely dressed and carefully squared.

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She likes using "reference" as a verb, describes various looks she admires – Twiggy, Winona Ryder in Heathers, Marianne Faithfull etc – and provides a flowchart on how to get dressed (roughly: 1) plan look 2) find clothes 3) put on clothes 4) look in mirror).

The former Alaska governor's remarks on the contentious issue came in a 40-minute speech delivered to roughly 2,000 guests dressed in formal attire, according to the local outlet.

By Mary de Sousa LAHORE, Pakistan, 8 November 2006 – "Nobody, not even the police, dares to touch me," says Rehan, a sharp, funny teenager with roughly cropped hair, dressed in a dirty shalwar kameez (the traditional South Asian trousers and tunic) and an oversized man's wool jacket.

"Tori was accused of wearing a 'thong bathing suit' and told there were complaints about the way she was dressed after roughly 3 minutes tops, of us arriving there".

Yet since the 1960s the shepherding community has softened its image and its cinder-block buildings are now dressed with roughly 120 politically charged murals.

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