How to Use roughage in a Sentence

roughage

noun
  • What if the very same roughage that sustains the sheep also helps the goats?
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Then strain the juice to remove any unwanted roughage.
    — Jinan Banna, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But some of those people should probably put some roughage in their diet.
    — Jim Gaffigan, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2020
  • The revelation that artists are tricky to live with hardly seems sufficient roughage for a whole book.
    — Kathryn Hughes, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Some dinosaurs needed long necks to reach high in the trees, loading their enormous guts with enough roughage to supply a small forest.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • There’s enough roughage to skip a salad altogether, and the cream and parm keep the sauce from feeling too vegetal.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Eating a high-fiber diet is also tied to lower colon cancer rates, and soy foods like edamame and tempeh both have plenty of roughage.
    — Marygrace Taylor, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2018
  • Eating a high-fiber diet is also tied to lower colon cancer rates, and soy foods like edamame and tempeh both have plenty of roughage.
    — Marygrace Taylor, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2018
  • Sometimes, people may see noticeably green poop, which could be a sign that the body couldn’t fully absorb all the roughage or foliage.
    — Nicole Hernandez, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The green chop, which comes from about 5 percent of the acreage, is turned into roughage for livestock, according to Rose.
    — David Anderson, The Aegis, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Eating a high-fiber diet is also tied to lower colon cancer rates, and soyfoods like edamame and tempeh both have plenty of roughage.
    — Marygrace Taylor, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2018
  • Eighty-nine percent of a cow’s lifetime methane emissions come from the process of digesting grass, leaves, and other roughage during its time on the pasture.
    — Brian Kateman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Their four chamber stomachs, which categorize them as a ruminant, like cattle, enable them to digest the roughage.
    — Camille Sauers, Chron, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Fiber supplements are designed to provide your body with enough roughage (fiber) so that it can be properly digested, filtered, and excreted.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
  • To test what these plastics do to our bodies once they’re consumed, the team bathed human embryonic kidney cells in the plastic roughage shed by the baby-food containers.
    — WIRED, 31 July 2023
  • Its excess roughage prevented me from getting to the addictive chewy bits of sugary Chinese mustard condiment candy at the bottom of the plate.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 12 May 2017
  • Years ago, doctors worried that small bits of roughage in a person's diet could block and irritate the little sacs that can form along the wall of the colon, leading to diverticulitis.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Conversely, some people with slower gut transit may find that diets very high in roughage leave them feeling totally backed up, able only to pass hard, dried out stools that come out in incomplete pebbles.
    — SELF, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Meanwhile, an attentive server delivers beaucoup orders of beers and vodka and tequila and lemon drops (that’s TT’s drink) and poke bowls and burgers and even a little roughage.
    — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The skins of fruits, beans, potatoes, whole grains, and whole-grain cereal products are all roughage and contain insoluble fiber, according to WebMD.
    — Jo Yurcaba, Woman's Day, 3 June 2019
  • Ingest, digest, hope to produce something substantive; move through a deceptively long winding tract; consume requisite roughage; adopt a passable consistency; strive for a sense of completion.
    — Cara Schacter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Those desiring a little roughage can choose from a variety of salads, including a kale Caesar ($9) and a My Boy Blue steak salad ($11).
    — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 8 June 2017
  • Adding too many fiber-heavy chia to your diet at once can potentially set you up for uncomfortable symptoms like gas, bloating, or cramping—especially if you're not used to getting that amount of roughage, per the Mayo Clinic.
    — Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 30 Apr. 2022

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