steeled

Example Sentences

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Steeled by years in China’s poverty-stricken countryside where they had been banished by Chairman Mao Zedong, they returned to China’s cities to drive the changes that have turned China into the world’s second largest economy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

Steeled and educated by punk, they were already battle-ready.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2013

Steeled myself against the next moment that my authenticity as a member of this subculture would be called into question.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2012

Those souls that hate the strength that mine has Steeled in the school of old Aquinas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Steeled to all human weakness—to the voice Of heavenly duty deaf.

From Don Carlos by Schiller, Friedrich