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Example sentences for "roughest"

Lexicographically close words:
roughed; roughen; roughened; roughening; rougher; roughhouse; roughing; roughish; roughly; roughneck
  1. Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

  2. Thy palate then did deign The roughest berry on the rudest hedge; Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets, The barks of trees thou brows'd.

  3. We had camped for the night on the plains, at the forks of Mulberry and Canyon Paladuro; a point from whence could be seen one of the roughest and most picturesque scopes of country in the west.

  4. About twelve o'clock that night, after a very hard ride over one of the roughest strips of snow covered countries a man ever saw, we arrived at the Cohglin ranch.

  5. In Louisiana, where wood of similar texture and appearance might be expected, it is not looked on with favor, but is employed only in the cheapest, roughest work.

  6. The principal uses to which this oak is put in California and Oregon are as fuel and ranch timbers, the latter being of the simplest and roughest sort.

  7. And alas, Manhattan seems to think so, too, for to Prospect Park it sends each bright summer Sunday not the best but the roughest of its hordes.

  8. The fair green of Ballinrobe is now a quagmire, and the men under canvas have had the roughest possible night of it.

  9. Now, this may appear incredible to those who have only seen the awakened Irishmen who do a vast quantity of the hardest and roughest kind of work in Great Britain and in the United States.

  10. He scarcely gave one the idea of a dweller in the waste; yet the roughest experiences of overlanding squatter-life, of a leader of the rude station and road hands, had been his.

  11. It appears to me the roughest class of people I ever saw.

  12. These rafts are manœuvred with very great dexterity, and safely brave the roughest seas.

  13. We found the Sard cavallante, a much finer race, trudging on foot through all the roughest part of the tracks, and perching themselves at the top of a much heavier load of baggage on the pack-horse, when they were tired of walking.

  14. This basin is surrounded on three sides by tall gloomy buildings, of the roughest construction, piled up, tier above tier, to a great height.

  15. Delicate as the flowers seem, they stand the roughest storms without much hurt.

  16. She seems to have no kind of fear even of our roughest men; and yet she looks with reverence and awe upon the Counsellor.

  17. And these grew more as he went onward, and his pony reared against him, being scared, although a native of the roughest moorland.

  18. We are soldiers of fortune accustomed to sleep on the ground and to live on the roughest fare, and since leaving Scotland we have scarcely slept beneath a roof.

  19. Even the roughest of them, and those who had been longest away from their native country, were much moved by the service.

  20. He is like a stout ship which will weather the roughest storm uninjured, but roll its masts overboard in the succeeding calm.

  21. The trees are as rugged as the roughest old apple trees, and many of them are supported only on a hollow half-circle of trunk or on two or three mere sticks.

  22. But in all his tales Jack never said a word that Lady Coke would not have liked; and there always seemed some good in every person he had met, even the roughest and toughest.

  23. If only I could have made my way to some seaport town, and have been shipped off home again, I would gladly have endured the roughest voyage to be once more in my own dear native land.

  24. Now for twelve miles of mountain, the roughest road and wildest country you ever saw crossed in a phaeton, good master Frank.

  25. Hogg and Shaw, connected with the engineering staff, returning from an exploration to the Selkirk Range; they spoke of the travel as of the roughest description as far as they had gone, and it was as far as it was possible to go.

  26. The passage through the Eagle Pass is mentioned as being of the roughest description; we have therefore to prepare for the work before us.

  27. Taking Nat Langham's Store on his route, he soon found himself in the midst of a company of the roughest and lowest of the labouring-class population of the district.

  28. But there is not one among the roughest of the peasants or of the townsfolk who has not that indescribable thing we call manner, or who would betray our insular awkwardness when we speak to a lord.

  29. In the roughest costermonger there is a vein of real nobleness, often even of poetry, in which lies the whole chance of his rising to a better life.

  30. The surface of the roughest ground covered large deposits of lead, zinc, mica and several varieties of choice clay.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.