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How to use roughness in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Roughness means the property of being rough, coarseness. Example: “The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.”

Examples of roughness by meaning

nounThe property of being rough, coarseness.

  • The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.

nounSomething that is rough; a rough spot.

  • A variety of suitable methods for surface inspection are available to detect topographical defects induced by surface roughnesses such as scratches, digs, inclusions and spatters.2003, Klaus Bange, “Surfaces of Substrate Glasses”, in Thin Films on Glass, Springer Science & Business Media, page 101

nounA measure of how rough something is, such as a surface.

  • The surface roughness was low.

More sentences with roughness

  • The roughness of the wool was weirdly pleasant.From the entry weirdly
  • The soft roughness of golden fur, and the mane flying back in the wind.2012 May 28, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry lionback
  • The song samples Ricky Martin's hit Shake Your Bom-Bom but adds ragga's roughness.2001 September 15, Christopher John Farley, “Music Goes Global”, in Time, →ISSN. From the entry ragga
  • However, in our zeal to eliminate the ‘unpoeticity’ of the translation, we have also got rid of an important asset of the original—its characteristic roughness.1997, Michał Pawica, “The case of translation: the short-cummings of Polish”, in Alan K[enneth] Melby, editor, The Twenty-third LACUS…. From the entry unpoeticity
  • The high-polymer geomembrane must have a certain tensile strength and ductilibility to allow for adaptation to the irregularities and roughness of the shotcrete lining.1987, Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference, Proceedings, page 471. From the entry ductilibility
  • The most common symptom of incorrect equalization (assuming good associated equipment) is a bright, hard, elevated roughness of response above approximately 2 kHz.1981, The Absolute Sound - Volume 6, Issues 21-24, page 73. From the entry misequalize
  • Much of the alleged roughness of Donne's prosody unfrets itself without betraying his refusal of mellifluous regularity – if readers fit word lengths and rests into lines as singers do.1997, Diane Kelsey McColley, Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England, page 99. From the entry unfret

Meaning of roughness

  1. noun The property of being rough, coarseness.
  2. noun Something that is rough; a rough spot.
  3. noun Roughage; coarse fodder.

Full definition of roughness

Questions about roughness in a sentence

How do you use roughness in a sentence?
Roughness is used as a noun. For example: “The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.”
What is a short sentence with roughness?
“The surface roughness was low.”
What does roughness mean?
Roughness means the property of being rough, coarseness.

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