How To Use roughneck In A Sentence
- Over the next hundred years the Wind River Valley attracted only a few hardy farmers, ranchers, and roughnecks.
- During the Interior secretary's tenure, Taylor jumped to more lucrative work as a pumper, roughneck, and roustabout on Wyoming's oil wells.
- Spent some time being a roughneck in the fields up around Buffalo.
- It wouldn't be politically wise for the ambitious local marshal to be associated with a roughneck like Horn.
- A bunch of roughnecks with feather-cut hair and Indian canoes was loitering by the river bank, smoke still wafting from the barrel of their gun.
- When he went there, Chesebrough noticed that roughnecks who worked the rigs were maddened by a gelatinous black gunk that clogged up their drills.
- A rough, violent person who engages in destructive actions: mug, roughneck , rowdy, ruffian, tough. Informal toughie. Slang hood, punk.
- Things improved after Popper challenged the leader of the roughnecks to a boxing match.
- The roughnecks and hooligans have gone and instead families on a Saturday night dine alfresco on the broad shrub-lined pavements as though they were in Paris.
- Above all, every effort is made to avoid roughnecks and ‘muscle-bound morons.’
