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Example sentences for "hard tack"

  • He was just in time to see the British medical sergeant come in with a pitcher of tea, tin cups, hard tack, and margarine and jam.

  • The food consisted of bully beef, M and V, hard tack, tea and sugar, as reported by the patients stationed there.

  • Breakfast of hard tack, coffee and pork was eaten, and the troops, in solid columns to the number of 7,000, under command of Gen.

  • The boxes of hard tack sent us were marked Harrison's Landing, having been with McClellan on the Peninsula campaign.

  • Arriving at Piedmont, rations were issued of hard tack, coffee and pork, the men eating a good supply, and lying down until morning.

  • We were just up from a good night's sleep and had partaken of a generous supply of Old Java and "hard tack," and felt abundantly able to defend ourselves.

  • To make fires and cook supper was impossible, so we supped on raw salt pork, hard tack, and cold water.

  • Each received his ration of coffee, hard tack, pork and beans, irrespective of size, weight or previous condition.

  • Beside this there was a prejudice with many against "hard tack" and cold meat with spring water to wash them down; particularly when brought into competition with the possible supplies of a prosperous farmer's garden, cellar and field.

  • Hard tack was no such delicious viand as made us despise the free gift of the cow.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard tack" 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:
    dear abbe; delicate membrane; derive from; further resistance; greater amount; hard bread; hard cash; hard eggs; hard ground; hard lines; hard pressed; hard rubber; hard service; hard task; hard upon; hard winter; hardly fair; hardly knew; hardly need; hardly think; hardware store; hardy annuals; largely composed; mortal woman; not fit; past tense