roughhouse

Example Sentences

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“That day, I was roughhoused and treated unfairly for no reason,” Price testified Monday.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

Morsell’s parents would hear the thuds from the boys crashing into the wall as they roughhoused and tried to dunk.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

That sense of seductive inevitability, which was ever-present in the 1999 Broadway revival with Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, is roughhoused out of Ellis’ production.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2019

He joshed and roughhoused with the boys, and seemed to settle immediately into companionship with them in a way that belied the remote gaze he had trained on everyone during the first rehearsal and dinner.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 20, 2010

As their camouflaged troop carriers hummed and tanks growled, they roughhoused, wrestling and knocking one another about.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti