steeled

Example Sentences

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Steeled by years in China’s poverty-stricken countryside where they had been banished by Chairman Mao Zedong, they returned to China’s cities to drive the changes that have turned China into the world’s second largest economy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

Steeled and educated by punk, they were already battle-ready.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2013

Steeled myself against the next moment that my authenticity as a member of this subculture would be called into question.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2012

Steeled in Wall Street's rough and tumble, Dillon preserves a diffident professorial manner, and revels in tastes that few of his countrymen share: vintage wines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Steeled against surprise, they looked for the unexpected, the strange, the startling; and the only thing at which they would have wondered would be to be five minutes without having something new to wonder at.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward