roughly

Definition:
1. Approximately but not exactly.
2. Using force or not being careful and gentle.
3. In a way that does not leave a smooth surface.

Use 'roughly' in a sentence:

• 1. He was roughly the same age as myself.
• 2. Profits have fallen by roughly 15%.
• 3. Roughly half of them are British subjects.
• 4. Roughly crumble the cheese into a bowl.
• 5. I mean it might be slightly curvy, but roughly, it looks like a parallelogram in space.
• 6. 'When roughly would this be? Monday?' — 'Something like that.'
• 7. Of course, roughly 200 years ago, Indianapolis was an upland forest of beech and maple.
• 8. The two lists will contain roughly the same number of states, but they will not be identical.
• 9. Among public colleges and universities, the number drops to roughly one in 10.
• 10. Their numbers have only dropped by roughly five percent.
• 11. Between 1980 and 2008, staff and teachers at U.S. public schools grew roughly twice as fast as students.
• 12. Ecologists studying hare populations have found that the North American snowshoe hare follows a roughly ten-year cycle.
• 13. Roughly speaking, we receive about fifty letters a week on the subject.
• 14. The hymn, the large part of the poem, can be divided roughly into three sections.
• 15. The heart is located roughly in the center of the chest cavity.
• 16. This apartment is roughly 300 square feet in size.
• 17. Sales are up by roughly 10%.
• 18. Roughly chop and parboil the potatoes.
• 19. The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth century.
• 20. At the upper end of the scale, two searches create roughly the same emissions as boiling a kettle.
• 21. He knew roughly what was about to be said.
• 22. The number of warships stationed outside European waters roughly doubled.
• 23. This is roughly $2 billion more than the company had invested in the previous year.
• 24. "Roughly 90% of nearly 170 studies favored the sponsor's interest," Nestle tells us.
• 25. There were roughly 300 people there.
• 26. We had this understanding that courses were roughly the same weight.
• 27. Focus the attention of roughly equivalent to control processing.
• 28. Roughly chop the vegetables, and keep back a little to chop finely and serve as a garnish.
• 29. Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
• 30. He was beginning to get angry and thrust her roughly towards the door.
• 31. Most of us have roughly the same number of offspring.
• 32. Part One describes the Medieval Warm Period, roughly 900 to 1200.
• 33. This trail was roughly parallel to the border.
• 34. We live roughly halfway between here and the coast.
• 35. 'What do you want?' she demanded roughly.
• 36. In sub-Saharan Africa today, for instance, gross investment accounts for roughly 15% of national income.
• 37. It has been snowing, roughly every third day, for as long as I've had the flu.
• 38. Its outline roughly forms an equilateral triangle.
• 39. Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
• 40. They all left at roughly the same time.
• 41. He pushed her roughly out of the way.
• 42. He tweaked Guy's ear roughly.
• 43. Roughly speaking , we receive about fifty letters a week on the subject.
• 44. Three-quarters of working-age Americans work, compared with roughly 60% of Europeans.
• 45. In fact, if we model this more carefully, we'll get roughly the same prediction either way.
• 46. Iraq's population is roughly half Shi'ite.
• 47. The oil washed ashore on roughly 1,000 miles of coastline.
• 48. Red blood cells are roughly the shape of a disk.
• 49. The Antarctica is a continent centred roughly on the South Pole.
• 50. All the planets orbit the Sun in roughly the same plane, round its equator.