rough-and-tumble
Example Sentences
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If EVs are coming for the world, this is the rough-and-tumble frontier.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
A stage adaptation can’t duplicate the way Lumet visually distilled the rough-and-tumble New York zeitgeist of the tumultuous early 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
The best proof of the Pistons’ rough-and-tumble bona fides comes from the admiration they’ve won from the crosstown hockey club.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Whether it’s about Indigenous people and what they had to go through under cowboys, or reclaiming the cowboy spirit of what America was built on — this kind of rough-and-tumble existence.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
Smith decided that if he couldn’t have Woolf, he wanted a rough-and-tumble, freckle-faced western rider named Noel “Spec” Richardson, a close friend of Pollard and Woolf.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
