hard put

Example Sentences

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“I’d trained hard, put 60 pounds of bricks in my backpack,” he told National Geographic Adventure magazine in 2003.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

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

Had he not used that magic he would have been hard put to keep the crank little boat on such a course, on that rough sea.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin