hard-pressed

Example Sentences

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In many stretches, you’d be hard-pressed to stroll along the banks of the San Gabriel or Los Angeles rivers without meeting abandoned water bottles, candy wrappers, golf balls, sad-looking teddy bears, even shopping carts.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Despite piling additional pressure on already hard-pressed Americans, the latest GDP figures out this week showed the economy motoring along in the first three months of 2026.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

I’m hard-pressed to think of any movie I’d watch four times in a month if I didn’t genuinely admire it on some level.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

But critics say the push to refine should have come sooner, with Zimbabwe already having lost out on several years of revenues for the hard-pressed local economy.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

“Well, if you insist, Tag, although it seems to me we’d be hard-pressed to go against the law.”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam