hard way
Example Sentences
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Back in Columbia, Monk was learning all this the hard way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But Lowden went on to earn his fractured action-hero gravitas the hard way: summer classes at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and several years of stage work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The waters between Turkey and Greece are dotted with endless tiny islands, as Odysseus learned the hard way, many of them reachable by rowboat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But they’d learned the hard way that funerals were expensive, that hiring lawyers was even worse, that when you lost a loved one, it sucked your finances dry.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
