How to Use roughly in a Sentence
roughly
adverb- The new product is modeled roughly on an earlier design.
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While roughly 50 or so cruise ships now serve this market, the ultra-luxe segment is still the tip of the spear.
—Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2024
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For roughly the drama’s first half, the goal seems to be to push back on the idea that some kids are simply monsters.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
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Most of the minks have been found in Sunbury, a city with a population of roughly 9,500.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
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The incident took place roughly a mile away from the South Point cliff dive on Hawaii Island.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
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The race took roughly four hours and Lecamp and Messner finished the race, side-by-side, in an impressive 7th place.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
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Amanda says roughly 12 women told her they’d been scammed out of cash by Derek.
—Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
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As June draws to a close, yields on junk bonds are on pace to hold roughly steady in the second quarter even as Treasury debt has sold off.
—Matt Grossman, WSJ, 20 June 2023
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Tests show the Red Hawk’s ejection seat handling crash test dummies lower in the weight range roughly.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
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Stavanger Cathedral is in the coastal city of Stavanger, a roughly 300-mile drive southwest from Oslo.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
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Peltz received less than one-third of the vote, or roughly 31%, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
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So that’s about 664 million people; roughly twice the population of the USA.
—Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
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The six found so far are roughly two to three times the size of Earth, but with densities closer to the gas giants in our own solar system.
—CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
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The process will take time, as Evergrande has roughly $19 billion in offshore debts.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
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The cerebrum is the largest, comprising roughly 85 percent of the organ’s total weight.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2023
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On average, fires burn roughly 9,600 square miles each year.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
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Making a loop through the lakefront and the Historic Third Ward, participants biked roughly 15 miles.
—Yash Roy, Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2023
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Buchanan said they will be scheduled for initial hearings roughly 35 to 50 days from filing.
—Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
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All this comes roughly two weeks after 8,700 union members walked off the job at Ford's largest factory in Kentucky.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
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The test currently has a shelf life of roughly a year and a half, maybe longer, and the number of poisonings can vary drastically from year to year.
—Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
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The headband-like ribbon is 63 inches long — roughly twice the length of most heatless curling rods — so there's plenty of slack to wrap around long, flowing locks.
—Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
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Overall, the month of July was ahead by 1.4% compared to pre-pandemic times, while the entire box office for the year remains down roughly 20%.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 July 2023
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Maryland’s share of Medicaid costs, for the roughly 1.7 million people enrolled in the state, is about $4 billion per year.
—Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2024
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The Information reports that Meta is paying one star $5 million over two years for roughly six hours of work in a studio.
—Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
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To fully restock its arsenal would take roughly twelve months if the U.S. keeps supplying arms at the current rate.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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Meanwhile, services, which are roughly twice the size of goods consumption, are still growing their way back to their pre-pandemic trend.
—Tshilidzi Marwala, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
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Impossible and its chief rival, Beyond Meat, have both laid off roughly 20% of their employees in the past year.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023
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This jacket manages to pack up to roughly the size of a mango without looking wrinkled when it’s unfurled.
—Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2023
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Walmart raised its full-year profit outlook by roughly 2%.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 18 Aug. 2023
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The building has charged new privately paying one-bedroom tenants far less than the roughly $2,200 allowed, records show.
—Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
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