roughest
Example Sentences
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Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
“It’s the roughest patch I’ve ever had,” said Foreman, who has been buying toy brands since the early 1990s and went through a bankruptcy-court reorganization of debt last year and Covid-related supply bottlenecks before that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Mustafa Suleyman grew up in subsidized housing in one of London’s roughest areas.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2024
The roughest stretch for the Chargers came on the Rams’ fourth possession, which ended up being a 16-play, 75-yard touchdown march that took up more than eight minutes of the second quarter.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2023
Like Pap used to say, “Sometimes a good lie can smooth the roughest road for folk.”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
