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How to use rough-and-tumble in a sentence

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In that rough-and-tumble era, wire cages surrounded many basketball courts to protect spectators from the players, and visa versa.
In between, we get punk rock, rough-and-tumble love songs, fuzzed-out power pop and even a surf-rock number.
He also knew the rough-and-tumble of politics on the Oxford City Council, from 1965 to 1974, as a councillor chosen by the University.
The rugged design is completely maintenance-free and is built for rough-and-tumble school environments.
Redeeming Love opens with the Gold Rush of 1850 and its rough-and-tumble atmosphere of greed and desire.
In the rough-and-tumble world of concert booking and promotion, no good deed goes unpunished.
After a few semesters at Yale or Harvard, it's easy to disdain the rough-and-tumble of the market and the inequality of trickle down economics.
He was a partier, a rough-and-tumble kid who didn't care what the consequences were as long as he got what he wanted.
He examines the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago party politics, where labor organizations were but one group of players.
Certain sequences show some signs of damage and wear, but this goes with the rough-and-tumble style of the film.
Newsgirls were to be found, but young females generally enjoyed fewer opportunities within the rough-and-tumble street culture milieu.
The nascent political order taking shape in the country also has a rough-and-tumble feel.
For all their rough-and-tumble, burly-bully image, I haven't yet met one who doesn't go all moony over a good painting.
They don't make 'em like this two-fisted rough-and-tumble war series anymore.
Mirroring the South Side's rough-and-tumble image, the team consists mostly of scrappy, low-priced, no-name players.
So what can we learn from this brief and sobering foray into the world of political consulting and rough-and-tumble politics?
The rough-and-tumble character never shied away from a tackle, and is reputed to have made a rugby-style, waist-high tackle on Stanley Mortensen late in the game.
His youngest son, orange Scott, was a rough-and-tumble trickster and a terrible tease.
For many fans, her hardscrabble youth and rough-and-tumble style were viewed as endearing strengths.
In short, there's something inherently rough-and-tumble about hockey.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Was there ever a rough-and-tumble that anybody could explain lucidly the morning after?
If they had been two little street boys they would have sprung at each other and had a rough-and-tumble fight.
But Patsy was a rushing, rough-and-tumble saloon-fighter, while Watson was a boxer.
Others of them, however, exhibited in the midst of much rough-and-tumble fighting and buffoonery, a slight thread of dramatic action.
The raven is not usually deserving of the discontent heaped on the head of its rough-and-tumble relative.
We get rough-and-tumble football because most fans want rough-and-tumble football.
He fell upon him, and a rough-and-tumble inaugurated the party.
In a fisticuff or a rough-and-tumble fight, he was one of the most formidable men of the region in which he lived.
Natural target in a gunfight, and in a rough-and-tumble it gets them all tangled up.
The progeny of the working dog are not any more trouble to rear than those of a rough-and-tumble Terrier.
Percy realized that in a rough-and-tumble he would be no match for Jabe.
He even moved a chair which might get underfoot in a rough-and-tumble.
This study surveyed 98 teachers of 4-year-olds about dramatic play in their classrooms and about their attitudes and practices about rough-and-tumble play.
Your ship is a tender creature, whose idiosyncrasies must be attended to if you mean her to come with credit to herself and you through the rough-and-tumble of her life.
This Bandy Walker was a gunman and a rough-and-tumble fighter.
The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man.
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