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 daughter of a Marine father and a trauma nurse mother, Murphy grew up outside of Chicago as a rough-and-tumble kid.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
Yet to many he was best experienced onstage, where he’d thread his songs into a kind of running monologue about his rough-and-tumble life.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025
They don’t surrender anything—not their friendships, video games, the rough-and-tumble sports some of them play, or even their macho posturing.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
