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

Mr. Soto makes evocative use of pop songs and a wandering clarinet motif, and with cinematographer Juan Sarmiento G. fashions a rough-and-tumble aesthetic well-suited to its chaotic central character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 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

Sloan’s rough-and-tumble peekaboo game is exemplary for a first-timer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

If there was anything that terrified us as much as getting deported, it was that the principal's office would discover our address scam and send us down the road to the rough-and-tumble streets of Cupertino.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi