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Example sentences for "roughly speaking"

  • This dates, roughly speaking, from about 1800.

  • This transition period lasted, roughly speaking, till the invention of the laryngoscope in 1855.

  • Why, that taking one brood and one year with another, only a pair of cod, roughly speaking, survive to maturity out of each eight or nine million eggs.

  • Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of hien.

  • The 'Cotton-belt' lies, roughly speaking, between the thirtieth and fortieth parallels of north latitude.

  • Therefore, roughly speaking, the British Empire owns about five-elevenths of the entire shipping of the world.

  • Roughly speaking, the river divides the town into two parts, one of which was inhabited by the Mussulman population, and the other by the Bulgarians.

  • Roughly speaking, the whole history of the sun seems to be bound up with them.

  • This was a gully or ravine, about five hundred yards long, well within his position, running (roughly speaking) at right angles with his front line.

  • It lies, roughly speaking, behind the middle of the line of that battle.

  • Roughly speaking, the ground to the west of the river was the scene of containing fighting, the ground to the east of the river the scene of our advance.

  • Roughly speaking the 75 consists of a cannon mounted on a two-wheeled support for transportation purposes.

  • The planets themselves are about equal in size; their diameters, roughly speaking, being about one-half that of Saturn.

  • The diameter of Saturn, roughly speaking, is about one-fifth less than that of Jupiter.

  • Our force of sixty thousand men was, roughly speaking, divided as follows.

  • The cattle kraal where the Masai were camped lay at the foot of the hill on which the house stood, or, roughly speaking, about eight hundred yards from the Mission buildings.

  • That gives you, roughly speaking, the distance in time Greenwich is from the sun.

  • Roughly speaking then, just as Greenwich Apparent Time means the distance East or West the Greenwich meridian is from the sun and Local Apparent Time means the distance East or West your ship is from the sun, so R.

  • You remember that, roughly speaking, the Sun's Right Ascension was the distance in time the sun was from the First Point of Aries.

  • A year is, roughly speaking, the period which it takes the earth to perform one complete revolution round the sun.

  • Roughly speaking, the first of these movements is inductive; the second deductive.

  • Roughly speaking, the former kind of meanings is concrete; the latter abstract.

  • Roughly speaking, the "south" is the sun's quarter, and therefore it is necessarily the quarter of the constellation in which the sun is placed.

  • So that this group of trades to which we propose to apply the system of unemployment insurance, roughly speaking, covers very nearly half of the whole field of unemployment; and that half is, on the whole, perhaps the worse half.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughly speaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beau ideal; but then; carrying capacity; chronic nephritis; dark forest; desperate chance; each floor; exclusive legislation; food products; general attack; general staff; less value; lost characters; lunged bulls; military posts; mon bon; never wrote; other passages; roughly speaking; seventy pounds; that every; would tell