See here, the whole bunch o' you roughnecks give me a pain!
There were more than enough roughnecksto do a mighty messy job--fast.
And these guys were the real roughnecks of the mining camp.
A confusion of queries, blusterings and exclamations followed, during which the Roughnecksstruck up the "Nobody Home" rag.
There she began to play the gypsy fortune teller with as much subtlety as the professional exertions of the musical Roughnecks permitted.
Singing and dancing for these roughnecks is far beneath you.
What did Canyon Pass and Canyon County have a sheriff for, if roughnecks were to go armed--and use those arms--just as they had been wont to do in the old days?
And 'tain't onlyroughnecks that our Nell's too good for," pursued Judson finally.
Let me tell you I have had to use considerable brawn, Willie, in handling these roughnecks that work for me.
But the rest of the congregation--even the roughnecks on the back seats--were subdued when the song was done.
You can't let a lot of roughnecks put it over on you like this.
Those roughnecks are between us and the office--in the office too, I reckon, by this time.
And furthermore I thought how hard it is to be refined and what a lot a person has to sacrifice to it, and that the roughnecks of this world seem to have most of the fun.
It takes some nerve for a young lady like her to play in a place like this for a bunch of roughnecks like us,” said another man, in a kindly tone.
The captains and lieutenants said that Tango was a sin, while the roughnecks and the vultures sat ’round and wore a grin.
To all the jolly roughnecks and pushers of the pen, a short and pungent lecture I will give.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughnecks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
