Sentence examples for roughly something from inspiring English sources

"And then they were followed by roughly something on the order of 15 or so other fighters".

This describes roughly something that is fairly commonplace, it's 100-proof vodka 1/2 water, 1/2 ethanol -- that describes that macroscopic system.

Back then, the word in question had been "truthiness," a term that has since entered the lexicon as meaning roughly something false that feels true in one's gut.

Roughly, something is meaningful for a person if she believes it to be or seeks it out.

Roughly, something is wrong, for example, if and only if (and because) anyone would agree to a norm prohibiting it in virtue of being reasonable or rational.

Plausibly, the relevant visual pathways in the frog's brain were selected for their disposition to be caused by a certain configuration of visible features (roughly, something's being small, dark and moving) to produce the sensory-perceptual representation in question, as well as for their disposition to initiate orienting and so on thereby.

The Italian phrase "buttato lì" translates, roughly, as "something that seems casual whereas it is completely thought out," the interior designer Roberto Peregalli explains.

And in Japan the term of art is keitai, which roughly means "something you can carry with you".This disjunction is revealing for an object that, in the space of a decade, has become as essential to human functioning as a pair of shoes.

In an April 1986 memo, Gary Sturm, a curator of stringed instruments at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and the key figure in bringing the quartet to the museum, wrote that the insurance for them "would be roughly for something in the neighborhood of a $5 million market value".

To meet that demand, we will need to build, roughly speaking, something like: 1,800 of the world's largest dams, or 23,000 nuclear power stations, 14m wind turbines, 36bn solar panels, or just keep going with predominantly oil, coal and gas – and build the 36,000 new power stations that means we will need.Our existing oil, coal and gas reserves alone are worth trillions of dollars.

According to the analysis presented here, 33 could roughly mean something like "you should go and this option is the best and this message has been conveyed and this is what I suggest to the hearer to settle certain uncertainty".