rough-and-tumble

How To Use rough-and-tumble In A Sentence

• 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.
• rough-and-tumble politics
• He's got heaps of photos proving he is a rough-and-tumble Kiwi bloke interested in hunting pigs, the bush, and swannies.
• The fractious Monday followed a rough-and-tumble weekend, as the two sparred over an Obama leaflet accusing Clinton of saying the North American Free Trade Agreement was a boon to the economy. CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2008
• That admonishment -- directed at another reporter unfortunate enough to step on the long train of TV host Lisa Rinna -- offers a hint of the rough-and-tumble of Hollywood's most famous walkway.
• It was a rough-and-tumble business, and a Bronfman brother-in-law managing several of the warehouses was shotgunned to death by bootleggers in 1922. Fortune’s Fool
• Nothing would have pleased the old man better than a rough-and-tumble campaign against the Satpuras, whom he, as an "unmixed" Bhil, despised; but he had a duty to all his nation as Jan Chinn's interpreter; and he devoutly believed that forty plagues would fall on his village if he tampered with that obligation. The Day's Work - Volume 1
• So what can we learn from this brief and sobering foray into the world of political consulting and rough-and-tumble politics?
• The actor's roguish, rough-and-tumble approach isn't well-suited to playing a heroic type, and his version of the Greek king lacks both presence and charisma.
• Their rough-and-tumble approach to play will equip them with the skills they'll need when they mature, so they can cope with a life in the big wide world and hunt successfully.