hardships

Example Sentences

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Despite these hardships, most individuals were generally in good health overall.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Sprinter Brittany Brown, a bronze medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, now has a mural at the Claremont elementary school where she ran to escape childhood hardships.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Social Security was created in 1935 as a safety net to protect Americans from the hardships of unemployment, in addition to old age and disability.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

According to the Federalist, the real problem is “an unwillingness to embrace adulthood along with its hardships and responsibilities.”

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

That He just proposed to sit up there and consign us to hardships one right after another?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver