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Example sentences for "roughneck"

Lexicographically close words:
roughest; roughhouse; roughing; roughish; roughly; roughnecks; roughness; roughnesses; roughs; roughshod
  1. But I wasn't in any too much time, for I'd no sooner got there than a big roughneck of a feller--a regular U.

  2. That's the goody-good kid that got caught in the roughneck stuff over at the Club.

  3. Well, I'm through with the roughneck stuff.

  4. A roughneck like Garrity would be the limit, but this—” He broke off with an exclamation of interest.

  5. I never forgot that look on his face, nor the way he took our roughneck insults.

  6. If I'd had a home like this I might have stood some chance of being like your Steve, instead of just a roughneck athlete.

  7. Why, say, how would he be any relation of a roughneck like me?

  8. The conviction that he was a roughneck deepened in him and tied his tongue.

  9. This roughneck is Frances Quinne, who lives at the end of the alley.

  10. Now just wouldn't a retiring daisy like Professor Boyd pick a roughneck like Katharine?


    11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughneck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boor; boorish; bounder; bourgeois; bruiser; churl; churlish; clown; coarse; criminal; delinquent; goon; gorilla; gun; hood; hoodlum; lout; loutish; lumpish; miscreant; mucker; mug; parvenu; peasant; raffish; ribald; rough; roughneck; rowdy; ruffian; ruffianly; terror; torpedo; tough; upstart; vulgarian; yokel