hard case

Example Sentences

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It really comes down to finding hard evidence of this — and that’s a hard case to prove.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Kieron Moore’s Slovacek is the hard case who is in the Corps to avoid prison.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

The chief judge of the 5th Circuit, Priscilla Richman, wrote the majority opinion and basically just quoted big chunks of the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision to show that this is not a hard case.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2024

“Given the nature of what happened here, the use of a search function to look at tweets, I think that’s a hard case to make,” Quinn said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

When the caterpillar makes itself a hard case and becomes a chrysalis, you should put this where you can see it every day.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall