A prisoner said to me one day, with no little emotion, "Chaplain, I am in a hard case.
He replied, "I don't know, Chaplain, it is a hard case.
It is a hard case; but the truth is, I see nothing that can be done for the Daltons.
It's a hard case," replied Hanlon, "but still we must put up with our lot.
The old mate, mistaking his emotion for sorrow at the death of so many of his men, said: "Yes, it is a hard case.
It is a hard case, indeed, but I will come out at the top of the heap yet.
Comin' th' 'hard case,' like the big feller aft there!
Martin had ever a fine disregard for weatherly precautions; he had to live up to the name of a 'hard case.
I was a hard case, a proper nut, to have that honor offered me.
Think of a sailor, a hard case, too, moping alone in his room on the day he shipped, when downstairs he could wassail away the day.
The careless yet grand air of the man, the something about him that lifted him above the rest of us--aye, he was the real hero, he was the sort of hard case I wanted to be.
I did so want to be a hard case, and I guess I was a pretty hard case, but I didn't like the other hard cases.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard case" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
