harden
Example Sentences
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The split widens when a labor strike becomes an armed revolt, with Jacir gamely tracking the hardening or shifting loyalties of both her peasant and well-to-do characters.
From Los Angeles Times
In mitigation, David Mason KC said the "hardened criminal" had "completely gone off the rails and got himself in a terrible, terrible situation".
From BBC
We have hardened our infrastructure and built an oil pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Demands have also hardened on the other side.
From BBC
“They’ve been hardened, apparently, by this war, and they don’t show any signs of yielding.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
