hardening

Example Sentences

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Those workers will focus on repairing broken lights, hardening lights to prevent copper wire theft and clearing the backlog of deferred cases.

From Los Angeles Times

As you read the book, you begin to understand why: Mavericks all, they’re slowly hardening into the cinema establishment they once fought against.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was getting smaller and smaller in my chest and hardening up like a rock.

From Literature

Yet this hardening at the state level does not always translate neatly on the street.

From BBC

More notable than the snowfall itself was the prolonged blast of extreme cold that followed, hardening snow into what has been informally dubbed "snowcrete" and making cleanup efforts especially difficult.

From Barron's