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
Abstraction meets landscape; painterly application meets rough-and-tumble applications.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
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
Born on March 15, 1767, in a rugged cabin near Waxhaw Creek, a border area between North and South Carolina, he grew up in a rough-and-tumble frontier of hardship and war.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
