How To Use Roughneck In A Sentence
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The power in Corb's songs is his ability to bring his world of roughnecks and steer roping to life on the stage.
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He gave two-thirds of full-time employees - everyone from top management to roughnecks working on oil rigs - Net-linked laptops.
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I was looking at an elegant young roughneck , a year or two over thirty.
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By the time she was fifteen she was living on her own, managing a roughneck joint with a double-barrelled shotgun by her side.
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Folk who were in the jungle five years ago, they're working on the rigs now, roughnecking - think of that for a new beginning!
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When he went there, Chesebrough noticed that roughnecks who worked the rigs were maddened by a gelatinous black gunk that clogged up their drills.
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Spent some time being a roughneck in the fields up around Buffalo.
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John finds this richly ironic, because he knows that Pharisees and Sadducees would be united in their "citified" contempt of him, because he's a roughneck who doesn't "dress properly," and everyone in Jerusalem surely knows it.
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A stream of complaints to Bloomsbury House led to the sacking of the more objectionable roughnecks.
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The simple graphic, though it may perpetuate the hopes and expectations of unemployed roughnecks and roustabouts, masks a more complex story.
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His roughneck Irish face fit right in with the sandhog getup.
Enemy Within
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When he went there, he noticed that roughnecks who worked the rigs were maddened by a gelatinous black gunk that clogged up their drills.
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There are a lot of roughnecks in those camps, and who knows what kind of abuse she'll go through.
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Rudi The Techno Pioneer roughnecks We Wish You A Merry Christmas, complete with ragga vox and accelerating breakbeats.
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The Outback Australian roughneck is not more charitable, or enlightened, than his American counterpart - the redneck.
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During the interior secretary's tenure in the 1980s, he jumped to more lucrative work as a pumper, roughneck, and roustabout on Wyoming's oil wells.
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Ultimately the little roughneck escapes, and she bonds with the town's nerdy little pantywaist.
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Jock, cowpoke, oil roughneck, founder in Silicon Valley, stock trader and such
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Vin Diesel is the leathered, tattooed roughneck superspy, and the spot sends up Bond tropes like his relationship with Q and his penchant for cool cars and hair's-breadth escapes, but it does it with mock solemnity.
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When I worked in the South as a roughneck on oil rigs and as a steamfitter, I saw men like Walt get hung out to dry.
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The roughnecks dodged him, toting boxes of stamped cargo goods and dirty mops to swab the deck.
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Aside from the bizarre frisson the elites enjoy from mixing it with roughnecks, there's also a common bond in seeing lowly workers as ‘mugs’.
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The bump-backs cascade down the hierarchy of skills and seniority; the roustabouts and roughnecks in lesser-skilled positions and typically of recent hire go walking.
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This was a dangerous area, but the skilled roughnecks and the roustabouts went about their business with seamless teamwork.
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By the time she was fifteen she was living on her own, managing a roughneck joint with a double-barrelled shotgun by her side.
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The bump-backs cascade down the hierarchy of skills and seniority; the roustabouts and roughnecks in lesser-skilled positions and typically of recent hire go walking.
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During the Interior secretary's tenure, Taylor jumped to more lucrative work as a pumper, roughneck, and roustabout on Wyoming's oil wells.
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Spent some time being a roughneck in the fields up around Buffalo.
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It wouldn't be politically wise for the ambitious local marshal to be associated with a roughneck like Horn.
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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.
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When he went there, Chesebrough noticed that roughnecks who worked the rigs were maddened by a gelatinous black gunk that clogged up their drills.
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A rough, violent person who engages in destructive actions: mug, roughneck , rowdy, ruffian, tough. Informal toughie. Slang hood, punk.
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Things improved after Popper challenged the leader of the roughnecks to a boxing match.
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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.
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Above all, every effort is made to avoid roughnecks and ‘muscle-bound morons.’
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Despite their formidable learning and enlightenment, they possibly knowingly refused to distinguish between gentlemen and roughnecks, and did not prevent anyone from coming near them.
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I had to travel around the world and talk to all sorts of people -- oilmen, warlords, politicians, economists, geologists, environmentalists, sheikhs, lobbyists, and roughnecks.
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Over the next hundred years the Wind River Valley attracted only a few hardy farmers, ranchers, and roughnecks.
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This was a dangerous area, but the skilled roughnecks and the roustabouts went about their business with seamless teamwork.
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Palmer himself was hired as roughneck in 1953, when he was 18.
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The local constable was earning his pay again breaking up fights between the roughnecks.
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In recent times the town has been rocked by criminal activities which have resulted in some people being killed in cold blood by roughnecks.
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He was smart, liked to read, wasn't a roughneck like most kids, and liked being alone from time to time.
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The family is barely holding together, and Charlie acts out with violent activity designed to impress a gang of roughnecks that he'd very much like to hang out with.
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Ultimately the little roughneck escapes, and she bonds with the town's biggest nerd.
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‘I was in the same roughneck neighborhoods, but just didn't associate with the roughnecks,’ she often said.
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When she showed up hurt and said a couple of roughnecks pulled her into the alley to kill her, I couldn't imagine why.
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During the 1980s oil boom my oldest son roughnecked for his college money.
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The power in Corb's songs is his ability to bring his world of roughnecks and steer roping to life on the stage.
