rough-house

Example Sentences

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Can Hun Manet modify the rough-house, sometimes thuggish leadership style of his father to a softer and more subtle kind of rule?

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2023

"It was an all-boys school, we would rough-house with each other," he said said.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2018

GMT06:29 It’s fair to say not everyone is impressed with River’s rough-house approach.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2015

I love being around men – I love fake fighting and all that rough-house stuff – but after a while I really missed my girlfriends.

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2012

Said he liked things lively, but there was altogether too much rough-house on Beacon Hill for him.

From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by Lorimer, George Horace