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Roughly is an English word with synonyms like approximately or rough. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Roughly in a sentence

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Roughly meaning

  1. In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
  2. Unevenly or irregularly.
  3. Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.

Synonyms of Roughly

approximately about close to just about some more or less around or so rough

Using Roughly

  • The main meaning on this page is: In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness. | Unevenly or irregularly. | Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
  • Useful related words include: approximately, about, close to, just about.
  • In the example corpus, roughly often appears in combinations such as: roughly million, roughly the, at roughly.

Example sentences (20)

But if you correct for these two figures for these two events, roughly 2% we are roughly in line with what we were delivering in Q3, which was 13.1%.

He recently acknowledged that his firm’s short bet against the S&P 500 has cost him roughly $9 billion over roughly six years and told investors he would refocus on activism.

Regional new construction and home sales are both holding up well, considering the roughly 44% increase in the median home price since 2019 (which is roughly the same increase as the U.S.).

Roughly 80 percent of Americans live in urban areas and roughly 80 percent of those city dwellers live neighborhoods with less than 20 percent tree coverage.

That differs somewhat from the league’s calculation of a roughly $460-million present-day value (the number used to come up with Ohtani’s roughly $46-million annual luxury tax hit).

When you have been involved with fairs and exhibitions as long as I have, roughly 20 years showing stock and now roughly 35 as a journalist, you have seen a lot of beef on the hoof.

A quick Google maps check says Slatington is straight west of New York City (roughly two-hour drive); or roughly a 75-minute drive north of Philadelphia.

The company said in July that it had roughly $9.8 billion dollars in debt, down only slightly from roughly $9.9 billion shortly after the merger.

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During lockdown, this figure increased by roughly 30 minutes on school nights and roughly 24 minutes on weekends.

Additionally, in November 2011, a 4.1 earthquake struck shortly after 3 pm local time roughly forty miles north west of Hilo; the quake registered roughly twenty miles below the earth’s surface.

At roughly the same time, Amazon also changed course on “The Aeronauts,” a film with a budget of roughly $40 million that it had developed in house.

Roughly ten miles away, over a dozen people were displaced after a fire likely caused by a space heater ripped through three houses roughly in Newark earlier Saturday.

The new law also reduces the minimum instructional hours that must be spent teaching only English, math, science and social studies/history from roughly four hours and eight minutes per day to roughly three hours and 47 minutes per day.

Height is a measurement at right angles to this surface, roughly toward the centre of the Earth, but local variations make the equipotential layers irregular (though roughly ellipsoidal).

In 1931, Pluto was calculated to be roughly the mass of Earth, with further calculations in 1948 bringing the mass down to roughly that of Mars.

In addition the students are charged a copy and paper fee of NOK citation (roughly US$ ) for full-time students and NOK (roughly US$ ) for part-time students.

The archaeologists said the bones are from a boy who was roughly between the ages of ten and thirteen years at the time of his death and of a young woman who was roughly between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three years old.

The collision occurs at the termination shock, which is roughly 80–100 AU from the Sun upwind of the interstellar medium and roughly 200 AU from the Sun downwind.

The old R and N classes ran parallel to the normal classification system from roughly mid G to late M. These have more recently been remapped into a unified carbon classifier C with N0 starting at roughly C6.

These averaged roughly 200 lines of source code each, and compiled to produce a total of roughly 4.5 MiB of procedure code, which was fairly large by the standards of the day.

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Common combinations with roughly

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • roughly million 16×
  • roughly the 14×
  • at roughly 12×
  • roughly billion 11×
  • roughly of 11×
  • for roughly 11×
  • is roughly 10×
  • of roughly 10×
  • roughly rs 10×
  • and roughly

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "roughly" in a sentence?
An example: "But if you correct for these two figures for these two events, roughly 2% we are roughly in line with what we were delivering in Q3, which was 13.1%." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "roughly" from authentic English texts.
What does "roughly" mean?
Roughly means: In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
What are synonyms of "roughly"?
Common synonyms of "roughly" include: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, more or less, around, or so. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "roughly" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "roughly", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.