hardened

Example Sentences

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Hardened aid officials with long careers trying to help civilians in warzones have told me they have never seen anything as bad.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

Hardened treasure hunters beware: Genga and Cronin believe this case has the best chances of being cracked by the imaginative mind of a child.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2022

Hardened by years of smoldering war in their country’s east, and in any case not inclined to contemplate catastrophe right before the holiday, many have put the risk out of mind.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021

The tossing spray of Cocheco's fall Hardened to ice on its rocky wall, As through Dover town in the chill, gray dawn, Three women passed, at the cart-tail drawn!

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2021

Hardened by toil, her hands were gripped carefully upon the steering wheel as though she were in some fear of wrenching it asunder in an unguarded moment.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.