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How to use the word rough in a Sentence?

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It’s pretty impressive she’s walking so many holes out here, she’s a trooper, i really do n’t know what to say. She’s had a rough last year with Grandpa passing away, and we have an uncle that’s pretty sick, and I ’m just happy that we’re able to kind of enjoy all this together.

Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Scheffler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our public safety folks have been through, like many others, a rough last two or three years, we've been through pandemics, we've been through the murder of George Floyd, there's a lot of work for us to do, but part of that is to uplift the folks that are doing that work.

Bob Jacobson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He had been shaved up his back, had blood stains around his neck from a chain or rope, and looked pretty rough.

Rita Kimball

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Twenty four days – no land, nobody to talk to. Don’t know what to do, don’t know where you are. It was rough, at a certain time, I lose hope. I think about my family.

Elvis Francois

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All the major causes of the food crisis are still with us — conflict, Covid, climate change, high fuel prices, i do think we have to prepare for 2023 being a rough year.

Cary Fowler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The new year is off to a rough start for President Biden, whatever bounce he may have had from the GOP’s lackluster midterms and the drawn-out speaker election may be dissipating. The timing of the classified documents controversy is especially bad for him in light of his rumored 2024 announcement since it neutralizes what was going to be one of his primary lines of attack against former President Trump.

Giancarlo Sopo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need to focus on implementing some of the big laws that we actually passed so the American people can feel what we’ve done, after a rough few years, we’re seeing some real bright spots I believe across our entire nation. I think we’re making some real progress.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I like seeing people be stoked. I like seeing people be happy and enthusiastic about something that is happening in entertainment. The last five, six years, it’s been rough for a lot of people [because] folks have just been holding their nose as they go through and consume whatever entertainment it is that they’re consuming.

Eric July

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No one said it was going to be easy. If being great was easy, everyone would be doing it, you have to hit some adversity. There should be some hiccups. We came out like a rocket and then hit some rough patches.

Becky Hammond

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It was really rough out. The waves were so tall it was hard to see where they were. The waves just kept coming up and down.

Samari Rivera-Rodriguez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Most of my paycheck is going just to have him here, that's rough, because now we have gas prices, food prices, everything's just going up and up.

Jessica Gebbia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I've missed it here. I knew walking out here last year, it was going to be a tough year ahead. I maybe didn't think it was going to take this long to come back -- the knee has been rough on me.

Roger Federer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s different because we were in a different era. Our era was us taking pride in more than one thing; this era is about scoring. Our era was about defense, being rough, getting out there, and getting it done.

Seattle SuperSonics

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's been a rough journey in the Cup Series and these guys believed in me, they never gave up on me. A lot of people did, but they didn't. So I'm just very happy that we were able to make it work.

Daniel Suarez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Most importantly, you need to find that rare diamond in the rough that daytime viewers want to watch.

Mort Marcus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That was pretty rough, not many people knew what was going on. Not many people knew how [those accusations] affected me. Not many people knew what they were talking about. They weren’t living, breathing, or waking up with us. They just took it to the outer limits of expressing what they thought was going on. But the truth is, they really didn’t know what was going on.

Whitney Houston

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today was a hard day. It's not good. It's not the type of thing that we need as an industry to move forward, it's rough, man.

Jeff The Jiho Zirlin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ben had some criticalinjuries that required a lot ofattention, one of the hallmarks ofevacuating a patient is patientsget worse under rough conditionsgetting out of a bad situation.And the bad situation couldhave been made worse just bygetting in the wrong kind ofevacuation situation, so we worked hard at puttingtogether the right scenario toget him out safely.

Richard Jadick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The superpower of people with dominant Fixer Imposters is that they are tirelessly solution-oriented and helpful, particularly when the going gets rough. People with dominant Fixer Imposters can also be master worriers. They see adversity and disaster around every corner, even in benign situations.

Lisa Haisha

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2 years ago

I’m mentally prepared for that, it’ll be seven days of rough travel.

Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is difficult mentally, personally, I feel guilt just because my people are going through some rough things right now. And I’m here, I’m safe and there’s not much I can help with.

Denys Bobchuk

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We will investigate what caused the accident, the sea is rough but not too rough for our search and rescue efforts.

Nguyen Sinh

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

He was incredibly brave and never lost his kindness or his sense of humor, even when the going was rough.

Max McDonald

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Anything that changes the subject is good news. It's been a rough stretch for him. It is a chance for him both to fulfill a promise and do something that unifies his caucus and gives him a win, this is a propitious time to be talking about Supreme Court. If the current court does as we expect and guts Roe vs. Wade in the spring, this could be a motivating factor for voters on the Democratic side, particularly women, particularly in the suburbs, which will be important. And having a stellar nominee who impresses joining the bench after June could be part of that mix.

David Axelrod

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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