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.