hard put
Example Sentences
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Without the label you’d be hard put to know he’d painted them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
"People come up to me now at conventions and say 'you can do this as a job?' I'm like 'just try really hard, put your artwork out there and it can happen'."
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2023
Graham and Goold aren’t comfortable with intimacy, and this is just one of the ways in which their show is modern: one is hard put to find young playwrights who talk about love.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
While it is possible that this reservoir of supporters will not become activists, if they did the government would be hard put to cope.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2018
She gulped and suddenly felt quite nervous, although she would have been hard put to say why.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
