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How to use roughen in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb

Roughen means to make rough. Example: “The wind began to roughen the surface of the sea.”

Examples of roughen by meaning

verbTo make rough.

  • The wind began to roughen the surface of the sea.
  • They roughened the edges of the stone to give it a rustic look.

More sentences with roughen

  • But at Mangnai the road roughened to a stone trail, where trucks, even my bus, gave up.2006, Colin Thubron, “The Southern Road”, in Shadow of the Silk Road, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry Mangnai
  • Household drudgery, wood-cutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish.1901, Miles Franklin, “Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC…. From the entry outside
  • The road curved as it roughened, with some dirtfalls cascading onto the road in some places from rain and wind.2014, Diana Marcellas, The Sea Lark's Song. From the entry dirtfall
  • At the third-floor level runs a band of varying ornament, including projecting panels of glazed terra cotta surrounding roughened, sandpaperlike rectangles.2009 May 3, Christopher Gray, “Fidel Castro Slept Here”, in New York Times. From the entry sandpaperlike
  • Injury to the tunica intima will result in roughened endothelial edges and possible adherence of platelets, which may form clots.1990, Phyllis Fichtelman Nentwich, Intravenous Therapy, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 20. From the entry tunica intima
  • This occurs when a drop of electorlyte or other liquid sits on top of a roughened nanostructured surface instead of wetting it.2006 November, “Batteries that Keep”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 128, number 11, page 22. From the entry superhydrophobicity
  • These are callosities: roughened skin caused by infestations of what ‘lice’ (which are actually parasitic crustaceans called cyamids less than an inch long that feed on flakes of skin).2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 271. From the entry cyamid
  • Though obviously roughened from hard work, her hands were gentle as she gathered up Catherine's hair and arranged the delicate netting of the crispinette over it.2001, Mary Reed McCall, chapter 3, in Secret Vows, Avon. From the entry crispinette
  • To assure adherence of the dipcoat to the wax, prewetting in a suitable agent to remove mold parting lubricant and microscopically roughen the wax surface may be necessary.1969, Industrial Arts & Vocational Education - Volume 58, page 37. From the entry dipcoat
  • The general idea was to write the amount in ink and then run or stamp over it with a crinkler which so roughened the paper that alterations seemed impossible.1920 May 1, Edward H. Smith, “Your Check”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 192, number 44, The Curtis…. From the entry crinkler
  • The animal does not become seriously ill, but scratches itself vigorously, is either very restless or very somnolent or both alternately, hair roughened, eyes usually lachrymate and partly closed.1914 November, Chester H. Elliott, “The Antigenic Properties of Glycoproteins”, in Ludvig Hektoen, Edwin O[akes] Jordan, editors, The…. From the entry lachrymate

Meaning of roughen

  1. verb To make rough.
  2. verb To become rough.

Full definition of roughen

Questions about roughen in a sentence

How do you use roughen in a sentence?
Roughen is used as a verb. For example: “The wind began to roughen the surface of the sea.”
What is a short sentence with roughen?
“The wind began to roughen the surface of the sea.”
What does roughen mean?
Roughen means to make rough.

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