rough-and-tumble

How To Use rough-and-tumble In A Sentence

• Meanwhile, the publisher of the daily paper Minerva, Noah Webster -- of Webster's "speller" fame -- tired of the rough-and-tumble of journalism and withdrew from public life altogether. Newspaper Wars
• They don't make 'em like this two-fisted rough-and-tumble war series anymore.
• Berlin, may be as brave as a lion, but he cannot stand in a rough-and-tumble against a backveld hunter, though more than double his age. Greenmantle
• While it's often used as a substitute for the term "horseplay", meaning rough-and-tumble behavior, it's also used as a euphemism for play with sexual connotations, due in part to the Crooks and Liars
• As primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, he was at the centre of many a religious stooshie over soft drugs and same-sex marriages and he seemed to revel in the rough-and-tumble.
• a rough-and-tumble fight
• But while she is no softie and revels in a little rough-and-tumble now and again, her diminutive figure belies the true extent of her football potential.
• In the rough-and-tumble world of concert booking and promotion, no good deed goes unpunished.
• Poor Sarah took off her frock and washed it before me, without a sign of distress or embarrassment; and then we went off together and had a bit of a dance, -- a rough-and-tumble fore-and-after, -- at the nearest booth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866
• Some fear he is too thin-skinned to survive the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign.