rugged

Example Sentences

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At the time, however, the frontier – with its rugged cowboys, miners and railroad men – defined American manhood.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Hundreds of police have pursued Freeman through the region's rugged terrain over the past seven months, pouring resources into one of Australia's largest manhunts.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Surrounded by rugged mountains, it is around a 14-hour drive from the capital, Tehran.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

And even if rugged individualism was his brand, he still existed in a world that defined him and which is largely left on the margins here.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

From these fragments, researchers discovered that Stone Age mathematicians were a bit more rugged than modern ones.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife