'roughly' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'roughly' with 10 example sentences.
- roughly adverb
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: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
: with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
: with rough motion as over a rough surface
Asia is roughly four times the size of Europe.
Roughly half of America's fruits and vegetables come from California.
I'm roughly the same age as you.
We both arrived roughly at the same time.
You can speak roughly forty different languages.
The children treated the books roughly.
Roughly speaking, a doctor repairs people.
Roughly speaking, there were about 30 people in the bus.
Roughly speaking, the seasons in England correspond with those in Japan.
Don't handle these tools roughly.