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Example sentences for "hard thing"

  • The Church's stiff attitude toward women has been a hard thing to explain to the "world.

  • I feel like a real slacker, for I have never yet done a hard thing.

  • It is a hard thing to tell a man that he is not exactly right in the head.

  • A hard thing, indeed, old Agamemnon; but there is no help for it.

  • It is a hard thing, perhaps, even to think him guilty for a moment.

  • Gilbert and I have been something like brothers for the last twelve years of our lives, and it would be a hard thing, for one of us at least, if our friendship should ever be lessened.

  • It seems a hard thing that I should have lived all these years without knowing her; lived alone, with no one about me but those that were on the watch for my money, and eager to cheat me at every turn.

  • I have taken some trouble to find you, Marian, and it is a hard thing to find you the wife of another; but the bitterness of it must be borne.

  • It was a hard thing to do, and it seemed to her a kind of treachery against her husband--as if she were inflicting everlasting disgrace upon him in secret, like a midnight assassin, who stabs his victim in the back.

  • It is a hard thing to think that a good old name must perish off the face of the land.

  • But it was a hard thing for a father to tell his son of his mother's shame.

  • It is a hard thing to say, and yet it is only the plain truth given to us by the lips of Christ himself, that you cannot believe in God unless you do the things which He says.

  • It seems rather a hard thing to say, but people who would leave a church because the Sermon on the Mount was preached from its pulpit, must be a strange sort of Christians.

  • Which infirmities, although it is a hard thing to name them all, yet some of them are these that follow.

  • It is a hard thing, but so it is; the comfort of absolute stagnation is nowhere permitted us.

  • Is not it a hard thing, my darlin' Puddock, I can't find out.

  • Breakfast is a hard thing to manage in America, particularly in a country-house, as people have different ideas about eating a hearty meal at nine o'clock or earlier.

  • Therefore we begin and end with the same idea,--breakfast is a hard thing to manage in America.

  • Gad, it's a hard thing to lose a fellow of that sort: but he must go," thought the Major.

  • Oh, Blanche, Blanche, it's a hard thing, a hard thing!

  • It was a hard thing so to think of him, and Mary's heart sank at the thought that Lady Maulevrier's worldly wisdom might have reckoned aright.

  • It was a hard thing; but perhaps the hardest part of it was that Lesbia seemed so very well able to get on without her.

  • It was a hard thing, and she was prepared to detest the interloper.

  • You can understand," he continued, "that it is a hard thing for me.

  • It will be a hard thing to go home, and he not there to come and ask: 'Are you all right, laddie?

  • It would be a hard thing for me to go blind and none about the wee bit house but mysel'.

  • Well, now, your Honor, that would surely be a hard thing to say.

  • It will be a hard thing to find out," declared Crooked Foot.

  • It will be a hard thing to do but I believe it is the only way to save Spotted Deer.

  • It will be a hard thing to do, but you must be strong.

  • And isn't it a hard thing they'll leave us no peace, Lavarcham, and we so quiet in the woods?

  • Isn't it a hard thing you're doing, but who can help it?

  • Isn't it a hard thing that we three who have conquered many may not die together?

  • Tis a hard thing for a farmer to leave the cattle, which he has fed and cared for, through want and trouble, to other hands that know nothing of the difficulties which have oppressed him all his life.

  • It is a hard thing to occupy a station in which one must keep up appearances, without the requisite means.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard thing" 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:
    camp fire; five louis; hard and; hard eggs; hard enough; hard for; hard money; hard paste; hard road; hard stone; hard wood; hardly conscious; hardly know; hardly less; hardly think; hardy annual; hardy annuals; its natural; poor father; rarely more; scarcely perceptible; single night; small canoe; went across; when used; worried about