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• Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.From the entry birth
• Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land or water roads.From the entry railroad
• The defenders' knowledge of the terrain roughly counterbalances the attackers' superior equipment.From the entry counterbalance
• Cmavo are connective, syncategorematic words. They are roughly comparable to English conjunctions, prepositions, articles, numerals, and some adverbs.From the entry cmavo
• The two main players were roughly of an age.From the entry of an
• The Orthodox horologion is roughly equivalent to the Catholic breviary.From the entry horologion
• Each month is a roughly trigesimal period.From the entry trigesimal
• Roughly two-thirds of Americans default to the General American accent, with other dialects like Southern, AAVE, and Chicano usually being considered lower prestige outside of entertainment and politics.From the entry American
• Akers claims that ETCS signalling renewals are roughly 50% of the cost of conventional renewals.2024 May 29, Philip Haigh, “The digital revolution and the switch to in-cab signalling”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 29. From the entry by and large
• Roughly 2–3 per cent of the population is aphantasic, which makes it a surprisingly common condition.2021, John Higgs, William Blake vs the World, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 136. From the entry aphantasic
• Hwatu are small hard plastic cards roughly the size of a matchbook.2021, Michelle Zauner, “Double Lid” (chapter 3), in Crying in H Mart, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry hwatu
• The course is quite convenient because it is roughly ten kilometers from downtown Tainan.2021 March 15, “Tainan Golf Country Club”, in Taiwan Tourism Bureau, archived from the original on 10 May 2021. From the entry Hsinhua
• Just a really, really big hill, roughly a thousand feet above sea level.2021, Erin Hahn, Never Saw You Coming, New York, N.Y.: Wednesday Books, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry easy peasy mac and cheesy
• Use your hands (or paper towel) to squeeze out excess water, then roughly chop.2020, Charlotte Druckman, Kitchen Remix: 75 Recipes for Making the Most of Your Ingredients: A Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry rabe
• Roughly 93% of the inhabitants of Niaosong Township came from Cyuanjhou and Jhangjhou of Fujian Province, China.(Can we date this quote?), “History”, in Niaosong District Office, Kaohsiung City, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020. From the entry Jhangjhou
• I have passed along your comments and she said “Mrrp!” which roughly means “thank you.”2019 December 26, u/LingWisht, “I interrupted this chonk’s nap to wish you all a joyous Boxing Day”, in r/cats (Reddit post), archived…. From the entry mrrp
• Tonle Sap Lake sits roughly in the middle of this lush expanse.2018 March 28, Ben Mauk, “A People in Limbo, Many Living Entirely on the Water”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Mekong
• The ratio of young to old among the dead—roughly one to ten—ought to have been less stark.2017, Paul Midler, What's Wrong with China, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry tofu dreg
• Concasse the tomatoes, roughly chop the tarragon then remove the dish from the heat.2016, Dun Jipping, Army Chef's Handbook of Cookery, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry concasse
• The Kimberley death adder is roughly 24 inches (60 cm) long and has a diamond-shaped head.2016 January 28, Sergio Prostak, “Top 20 New Species Discovered in 2015”, in Science News. From the entry Kimberley death adder
• Roughly 20 percent of BronyCon attendees identify as women — they’re often called “Pegasisters.”[2016 July 18, Wesley Yiin, “The grown men who love ‘My Little Pony’ aren’t who you think they are”, in The Washington Post, Washington…. From the entry pegasister
• Off the heat, add the toasted pine nuts and roughly chopped parsley and taste for seasoning.2015, Sally Clarke, 30 Ingredients, London: Frances Lincoln, published 2016, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry olive oily
• In the human brain, there are roughly nine glias for every neuron.2013, Marko B. Popovic, Biomechanics and Robotics, page 117. From the entry glias
• Jen-to-ch’üan roughly corresponds to the seat of modern Men-yüan county in Tsinghai province.[2009, Ari Daniel Levine, “The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100-1126) and Ch’in-tsung (1126-1127) and the Fall of the Northern Sung”, in The…. From the entry Menyuan
• Which means roughly that business keeps one safe from love—ominous talk when one’s lover is a courtesan.2008, Dave Duncan, The Alchemist’s Apprentice, Ace Books, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry apothegm
• Great exercise and the perfect outlet for family members who want to play roughly.2008, Pat Miller, Play with Your Dog. From the entry mouthy
• A dozen boys, roughly half the class, raised their hands and began discussing their hooptees.2007 October 24, Corey Kilgannon, “A High School Under the Hood”, in The New York Times. From the entry hooptee
• Roughly speaking, chiral polytopes have half as many possible automorphisms as have regular polytopes.2006, Peter McMullen, Egon Schulte, “Regular and Chiral Polytopes in Low Dimensions”, in Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, Chandler Davis…. From the entry flag
• The Amero would increase the GDP of the US by only roughly 15%.2006, Vasu Brown, Digital Xchange - Boring Ways to Learn the DX Market. From the entry amero
• We grabbed each other, roughly kissing and tossing covers and pillows about in our frantic lovemaking.2005, Charles E. Schwarz, The Lonely Detective Gets Nasty and Other Murder Mysteries - Page 65. From the entry foreplay
• So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high.2005, Lois H. Gresh, Robert E. Weinberg, The science of supervillains, John Wiley and Sons, page 1. From the entry sitch
• The microbiological quality can be roughly evaluated by analyzing the food for total plate count (TPC).2003, Ahmed E. Yousef, Carolyn Carlstrom, Food Microbiology: A Laboratory Manual, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry plate count
• Duty and action are roughly equivalent to kartavya and karma respectively.2002, Hullasa Behera, 50 flowers from Bhagavat Gita: a solace against frightening materialism, Delhi: Pustak Mahal, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62…. From the entry kartavya
• Even if it ran only rather roughly, though, the doomsday argument could have considerable importance.2002, John Leslie, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry doomsday argument
• But Caroline with the "i" long created a sound roughly equivalent to the idea of a girl.1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 44, in Lost Girls. From the entry caroline
• By the end of the eighteenth century, the population of the Urianhai frontier numbered roughly forty thousand.1999, B. Batbayar, quoting Council of Ministers, “Russia and China Respond”, in Sukhjargalmaa Dugersuren, S. Burenbayar, Khulan Khashbat…. From the entry Uliastai
• The Proxima Centaurians, who are roughly humanoid in shape, are a development of mobile carnivorous plants.1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Richard J[ames] Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, Kent, Ohio; London: The Kent State…. From the entry Proxima Centaurian
• The job of a paparazzi is, roughly, to ‘reveal the truth’ about the rich and the famous.1997, Eeva Joniken, Soile Veijola, “The Disoriented Tourist: The Figuration of the Tourist in Contemporary Cultural Critique”, in Chris…. From the entry paparazzi

Meaning of roughly

1. adverb In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
2. adverb Unevenly or irregularly.
3. adverb Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.

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Questions about roughly in a sentence

How do you use roughly in a sentence?

Roughly is used as an adverb. For example: “Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.”

What is a short sentence with roughly?

“Each month is a roughly trigesimal period.”

What does roughly mean?

Roughly means in a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.