Example Sentences

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Google’s Gemini, not some ruggedly handsome Englishman, was my partner on this trip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The former midwife spent years living on a cattle station with her husband on the north-western edge of Australia - outside her window, the vast and ruggedly beautiful Kimberley region.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

City, and specifically Haaland, endured a frustrating afternoon at Bramall Lane until the Norway striker’s opener, with a physical Sheffield United team defending deep and ruggedly.

From Washington Times • Aug. 27, 2023

After a hike above Pasadena’s Eaton Canyon in 1877, John Muir described the San Gabriel Mountains as the place where “Mother Nature is most ruggedly, thornily, savage.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2023

It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features.

From "1984" by George Orwell