hard
Example Sentences
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By the middle of hard winter I thought I was Sergeant Preston—a Mountie on a radio show I had listened to as a child.
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"I tried hard to break him of that," my father said.
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"Through hard work, though consistency, we'll get it back on track. Keep faith in what we're doing, keep faith in each other."
From BBC
He tries hard to alter the perception that he was raised in wealth and privilege.
Apple’s pocket music player largely owed its existence to one fortuitous meeting Apple executives had with the maker of a tiny hard drive that didn’t seem to have any practical application.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.