Sentence examples for roughly term from inspiring English sources

"Americans claim to be a 'gut' nation — which is kind of a bodily term for what we roughly term our 'values,' " he declares.

These are roughly terms or concepts which comprise a theoretical "starting point," on the basis of their meaning being completely definite and clear.

In the industrial Pennines, this is the stuff from which the towns themselves were raised; even the roughly synonymous term for it, millstone grit, expresses utility.

From the first bell, they traded on roughly equal terms, neither man looking for nor allowing rest.

In contrast, the average tenure for all House members has been roughly five terms, or 10 years, in recent Congresses.

Older members of the same disreputable pseudo-profession would have vented their contempt in roughly similar terms by calling him a new kind of journalist, without the capitals".

There's room, it would seem, for a network where representatives from the right and left can both feel comfortable, and compete on roughly equal terms.

Asked whether relations were better or worse after their roughly parallel terms in office, Mr. Putin noted that, at least, a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis was now impossible.

In addition, because the United States and European Union are each accustomed to being the dominant power in trade talks, it will take some adjusting to negotiate with a trade partner on roughly equal terms.

When James Ward got this tournament rolling by giving the defending champion a three-set workout on Monday, it took him a set to find his equilibrium; similarly, Liam Broady spent his first set against Murray wondering how high the embarrassment factor would rise before he got on roughly level terms.

A colleague recently sent me a message telling me that a research presentation I gave on public apologies over the use of the (roughly synonymous) terms "maricón" and "fag(got)" a few years ago allowed him to recognize the Spanish word when a fan sitting behind him at a minor league ballpark used it to describe the pitcher of one of the teams.