Sentence examples for try to rough from inspiring English sources

Some spotters get reputations as dealmakers; some guys try to rough their act up to drive harder bargains.

John Carew was very similar but Christian is 22. "Some defenders try to rough him up but everyone who has tried it has failed".

Or will he instruct his players to do what all his teams, Chelsea, Inter and Real, have generally done against Barça — try to rough the game up and to kick the rhythm out of the Catalans?

Companies like Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are ensconced in Empire; NBC, ESPN and FleetBoston Financial are in Tillinghast; and AT&T, Bear Stearns and Canon U.S.A. will try to rough it in Liberty.

They tried to rough us up".

Iowa fans were growing impatient with opponents trying to rough up Simmons.

"Intelligence officers of the United States," Mr. Cheney said, "were not trying to rough up some terrorists simply to avenge the dead of 9/11".

As soon as Grant tried to rough him up, Lewis started throwing those right uppercuts and Grant dissolved into a horizontal heavyweight.

In the fourth round Telesco tried to rough Jones up on the ropes, clutching him and almost driving him over the top rope.

Lisbeth has a gift for computer hacking, plus an ability to trawl briskly through printed files, and I found it endearing that, even as the movie tries to rough us up with tales of fascists, dildos, woodland snipers, and exploding cars, the main lesson that we come away with is: there's nothing like a day in the archives.

The final act, from Turkey, tried to rough things up with a dab of hard rock, but they sounded like a school band, and the angry stripping robot at the back, who sawed off her own armor in a shower of sparks, missed her cue.