roughly

[ˈrʌfli]

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.