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Many of them are convicted drug dealers and other hardened criminals.

The cells are austere—essentially hardened trailers—that cost about $40,000 each to build.

A generation of Syrian kids have the far-away gazes of battle-hardened soldiers returning from war.

She reportedly told them, “Sophie Lyons is a hardened criminal, and too smart to be caught like this.”

A comedy titan who was always the center of attention, amusing even the most hardened of cynics with his manic energy.

Even Haggard, case-hardened as he was, didn't light his cigar for full twenty minutes.

Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee?

And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.

A hardened dealer once went near a large meeting of men with a wagon load of bottles containing cold tea.

The hardened devils of Anzacs, who had taken cover betwixt the shell-proofs built of piles of stores, roared with laughter.