rugged

Example Sentences

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Somebody was wanted to feed lumber into the rig to prove how rugged these new steel models were.

From Literature

A rugged Martian landscape that resembles a giant spiderweb when seen from orbit may hold important evidence about the history of water on ancient Mars.

From Science Daily

The rugged individualists’ arguments run the gamut from a sincere nostalgia — many chairs designed and installed in the 20th century didn’t even have safety bars, they note — to the intentionally absurd.

From Los Angeles Times

A rugged, hard-tackling defender who won league titles in France, England and Spain and played 72 times for Argentina, Heinze commands instant respect on the training ground, where he works primarily with the defensive players.

From BBC

Martindale and her research team, including Stéphane Bodin of Aarhus University, were exploring the rugged valley to study the ecology of ancient reef systems that once existed there when the area lay beneath the ocean.

From Science Daily