Some roads close to the river are laid out in rough parallel to the riverbank.

I've said that it's a rough parallel to real world history in terms of culture, level of technology, type of government, ecclesiastical involvement, and the like.

If the megachurch movement has a rough parallel it is with the religious right, whose growth curve stretches over the same period dating from the late 1970's.

The histories seemed to run a rough parallel; so there probably had been a Mediterranean empire corresponding to Rome.

To take a rough parallel: suppose some great prophet arose among the Boers in South Africa.

There are rough parallels.

In extremis, a rough parallel can be drawn for a president faced with the kind of horrendous decision on which Krauthammer rests his entire case.

The Jaddites begin a holy war against the Asharite kingdoms of Soriyya and Ammuz, in a rough parallel to the Crusades.

The internal struggle in the Freedom Party has rough historic parallels with the Röhm-Putsch.

And so far as he could tell, it was a rough parallel in all essential features of the bestial thing now lying before the meeting.