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Example sentences for "hard time"

  • The poor fellow had a hard time of it, but he fought himself hard, and I think I helped him a little by taking him into my confidence in regard to my own troubles.

  • But it was not merely a hard time; it was a peculiar time.

  • Without their help you would have a hard time in collecting things--putting them together; they would be separate and distinct in your mind; if you remember but one isolated circumstance, it would be next to impossible to reconstruct.

  • The Ribblevale people are having a hard time to keep their heads above water, and immediately you smell conspiracy.

  • Pore little deevil," said he, "he's hed a hard time.

  • They had rather a hard time--perhaps you may have heard.

  • She's had such a hard time, poor dear, my heart has bled for her.

  • You might think that a man runnin' for congress in this country has a hard time sinkin' his reputation; but the way 'at Monte Cristo mined around in a feller's past was enough to scare a cat out of a cellar.

  • And it never occurred to him that every one has a hard time of it!

  • A wise philosopher once said that it is a rough Universe in which only the tigers survive--and sometimes they have a hard time.

  • The second, born after the worst of the malnutrition, was very small and weak and had a hard time growing up.

  • I can lawfully state that I think their liver tests weak, the pancreas appears not to be functioning well in terms of handling meat digestion, that the kidney is having a hard time of it.

  • The sick have what we would consider a hard time.

  • He would have paid every cent if he could, and if he had it would have all gone into the bank for the benefit of his womenfolk, who have had a hard time mostly.

  • That might come later, but Jacob was now in the midst of his troubles, and was having a hard time.

  • Jacob Holt was having a hard time, and it did not for the moment make his troubles any lighter that his younger brother seemed likely, by and by, to show him a way out of them all.

  • Marse Gilbert gave her 4 slaves as a wedding present, and they had a hard time, but her parents was mighty fine.

  • Slavery "The slaves had a hard time, some of them.

  • Pore Muthuh, she shore did have a hard time.

  • The model children in the new Arden poor-schools had rather a hard time of it during Mr. Granger's honeymoon, and were driven through Kings and Chronicles at a more severe pace than usual.

  • Depend upon it, the Prodigal Son had a hard time of it after the fatted calf had been eaten, Clary, and wished himself back among the swine.

  • Poor Clarissa had a hard time of it in these days.

  • In some places the women have a hard time, in others the men; it always depends on where there's understanding and then the belief that there's a God in Heaven.

  • For seven or eight years Mr. Bastow had a hard time of it.

  • No doubt they have a hard time of it, and we know that the gangs working on the roads are always ironed.

  • On one occasion she did say of Forbes Gurney "that he was having such a hard time, and that his clothes weren't as nice as they should be, poor dear!

  • You’ve had a hard time of it, but I’m going to stick by you now and take care of you always.

  • It isn’t necessary to tell all the unpleasant things that happened after that, but we had a hard time of it, Eliot, and you can understand why it was that I just almost hated nearly everybody.

  • I don't see what law dear Aunt Louise could have broken to have made her have such a hard time," wondered Ethel Blue.

  • The poor old stone has had a hard time in this climate," said Roger.

  • A hard time--a hard time," Daireen repeated musingly, and without a further word she turned away.

  • Sadly the young man turned away, and it is to be feared that his horse had a hard time of it upon The Flats.

  • That's all the story, my dear, only we know what a hard time of it he must have had during the four days.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard time" 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:
    average weight; hard cash; hard currency; hard life; hard matter; hard money; hard porcelain; hard road; hard rock; hard rubber; hard service; hard snow; hard time; hard winter; hardly fair; hardly knew; hardly know; hardly more; hardly necessary; hardly need; hardly worth; hardy perennial; rolling stock; sound came; southwesterly direction; then drop