How to Use roughhouse in a Sentence

roughhouse

verb

• The kids were roughhousing in the living room.
• The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.
  — Paulina Villegas, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• So go ahead, roughhouse with your siblings a little more often for the good of the clan.
  — Sarah Jay, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2022
• Even with kids jumping and roughhousing on it, this couch looks great.
  — Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
• The New Jersey in him seemed ready to continue roughhousing.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• That summer, Boulger broke his arm while roughhousing with friends, forcing him out of the contact-heavy sports.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• The roughhousing ranges from Lopez putting wrestling holds on opposing mascots to battling them with Star Wars light sabers or even hitting them on the head with poster boards.
  — David Blank, CNN, 12 Apr. 2018
• This was the place where my brother accidentally gave me a bloody nose roughhousing one day.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 11 June 2017
• There are shots of children at play, on the beach, on a farm, or roughhousing in a schoolyard but the incidents related are like those from a nightmare or fairy tale.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Family photos depict their father cuddling and roughhousing with this sons, and posing in front of a fire truck with a young Leonard.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• Many of the children remember playing catch, joking and roughhousing with him.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 21 Jan. 2018
• The Pilot Rock second-grader rode his bike, scarfed down molasses cookies after school and roughhoused with his three step-brothers.
  — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2018
• Now, on the pool deck, the boys tussle and roughhouse with the zeal of Labrador puppies, slugging each other lovingly in the shoulders and then retreating with giggles like ninnies.
  — Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Nutmeg, a 4-year-old mother red panda, and her cub, 6-month-old Jackie, can be seen in the video playfully swatting and roughhousing with each other.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
• The lawsuit alleges that Barlow, who was also a youth pastor, would roughhouse members of the boys' basketball team and would spend time alone with students in his office.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2022
• Mr. Murphy loved roughhousing with his boxer, Harley, who died recently, and playing or dancing with the couple's 2-year-old son, Jamey Michael.
  — Barbara Boyer, Philly.com, 31 May 2017
• According to one 2020 study, children who roughhouse with their fathers are better able to control their emotions and less likely to have behavioral problems.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 4 Jan. 2022
• Tilting down accomplished the opposite motion, and Max was quick to start roughhousing with his father, Dr. Ted Ng, landing a few light punches before reaching up and grabbing his dad’s nose.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2019
• Scenes of Sarah and Jessie gently roughhousing capture the blissful mother-daughter bond with a poignant intensity, wrapping the viewer in the blanket of their intimacy.
  — Stephen Holden, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
• Until then, my daughter has plenty to occupy her: playing basketball, reading, drawing comics, roughhousing with her siblings.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• But that defeat–to a tough, plodding, roughhousing opponent who came in overweight and utilized what could fairly be described as questionable tactics–only underscored the importance of Lomachenko’s footwork.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 9 May 2018
• Three police recruits have resigned in the wake of internal affairs investigations into their roles in the serious injury of a fellow student during roughhousing in a dorm at the state’s basic training academy.
  — oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020
• Their favorite moments are the unscripted ones after 9 p.m., shut-off time for electronic devices, when the whole gang tumbles into the living room, roughhousing, giggling, asking questions, talking — as families do — about nothing and everything.
  — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• At first, everything’s lovingly quirky — Bear smoking his pipe in the cramped studio, roughhousing with Pinch; Natalie neglecting her pottery to accommodate Bear’s manic fits of creativity.
  — Don Oldenburg, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• The kids were roughhousing in the living room.
• The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.
  — Paulina Villegas, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• So go ahead, roughhouse with your siblings a little more often for the good of the clan.
  — Sarah Jay, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2022
• Even with kids jumping and roughhousing on it, this couch looks great.
  — Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
• The New Jersey in him seemed ready to continue roughhousing.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• That summer, Boulger broke his arm while roughhousing with friends, forcing him out of the contact-heavy sports.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019

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