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Example sentences for "hard lines"

  • It's hard lines to pour out money in this way on Lal--but Royalty is expensive anyway.

  • Yes, that is hard lines," assented the sub.

  • Now, say it's hard lines--haint it, Maud?

  • He has to move in the world, and do as others do, if he doesn't want to look mean and shabby; it's hard lines on a fellow when it comes to that.

  • Hard lines," said Jack, who had made that remark two or three times before in the course of the evening.

  • It must be hard lines for a woman to stand by, in a church or anywhere else, and see the man she loves given away, for good and all, buckled hard and fast to another woman.

  • Schiller found it hard lines on him to keep quiet all this time--he couldn't hold it in no longer.

  • It seems like it; and yet it's hard lines to think a fellow must grow up and get on the cross in spite of himself, and come to the gallows-foot at last, whether he likes it or not.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard lines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after dinner; goes down; hard boiled; hard cash; hard currency; hard eggs; hard fight; hard labor; hard pressed; hard rubber; hard sauce; hard service; hard struggle; hard task; hard times; hard water; hard winter; hard wood; hardly ever; hardly fair; hardly knew; hardy annuals; little ahead; take charge; third down; this passage