hardened
Example Sentences
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I tried to speak, but my tongue felt heavy inside my mouth, like it had swelled and hardened.
From Literature
At times, his position appears to have hardened against Russia.
From BBC
He said the rank and file had been hardened “in the fight against corruption” and praised them as “entirely trustworthy.”
The choice of many schools and companies to convert therapeutic language into policy has hardened these cultural preferences into rules with administrative force.
Aggressive and revolutionary from the start, Iran’s regime has hardened into what the historian Ali M. Ansari calls an “Islamic security state.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
