How to Use rough-and-ready in a Sentence
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This structure could serve as a workspace and, for a while, as a rough-and-ready home.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Black South African soccer developed its own clubs, its own superstars, and its own rough-and-ready style.
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Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Its Blue Armchair, on show at design exhibition Convey, is blocky and rigid with rough-and-ready industrial detailing.
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Francesca Perry,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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But grit, rawness and dirty-realist poetry can be elusive elements to conjure, even in a production that cultivates those qualities with a rough-and-ready feel for the scrappy, sweaty storytelling of another era.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Some showstopping pieces were sold at Vivienne Westwood’s London shop Seditionaries, which revolutionized a rough-and-ready pop-culture style that still resonates to this day.
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Siran Babayan,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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Since then, the 6ft 4in (193cm) Yorkshireman, released by Huddersfield Town as a youngster for being too small, had evolved from a rough-and-ready forward to become one of the lower leagues’ most reliable target men, with a reputation for delivering big goals at big moments.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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