Opportunities are rare and the example of hardened criminals is absent.
These rings are placed on long sticks, 30 or 40 at a time, thoroughly hardened near a fire, then stored in barrels, with lime as a preservative, for use throughout the winter and coming summer.
One piece, melted and hardened before midnight, is a symbol of the old year; and the process is repeated with another piece after the stroke of midnight, to foretell the fortunes of the new year.
You were only interested in imprisoning and depriving of his only form of livelihood this old man whose heart was not hardened like yours!
The soft, subtle curve of her cheek developed in Jimmy to a hardened rotundity inevitably suggesting the desire to pinch it, which one feels toward the tomato pin-cushions on exhibition at church fairs.
I should have felt duly humiliated, no doubt; but I have become hardened to rebuffs, since I have been at Nepaug, for I meet with many, as I go about like a beggar from door to door in South East.
Those men and women of the dominant classes who have hardened themselves, and have succeeded in stifling their consciences, must still suffer through their fear of the hatred they inspire.
By the nail that is steeled and the hardened tooth.
I glimpsed sideways at him, and saw his tanned face, with the hair loose and tousled by the wind, looking changed, hardened and older, all the gay expression gone.
She was so nervous that she blundered into her subject without diplomatic preliminaries, gaining no encouragement from her mother's face, which, at first startled, gradually hardened into stern indignation.
Pharaoh hardened his heart when he saw the wonders wrought by Moses; but the magicians of Egypt were at last obliged to recognize in them the hand of God.
At other times he used mastic, which being yet soft, took the impression of the seal, then when that was hardened he put on another seal with the same impression.
When she was ready, Inspector Pryor would have escorted her down stairs, but she shook off his hand with angry scorn, and with an expletive that made even his case-hardened ears burn and tingle again.
And her heart, which had been hardened against the supposed triumphant rival of the poor peasant girl, now melted with sympathy.
After the filler has hardened the wood may be waxed or varnished.
After the first coat has hardened apply the second, but use less shellac and more alcohol and just enough oil to prevent the pad from sticking.
And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.
But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened their neck, that they might not hear me, and might not receive instruction.
What wonder, as these thoughts came over me, that sense, feeling, reason, gradually shrank and hardened into one stern resolve?
It had hardened a will that was already of an iron quality.
The handiwork of man is not usually wholly without merit, but Seal Bay would have sent the most hardened real estate agent seeking shelter in a sanatorium as a result of overwork.
Her lips compressed and her eyes hardened as she listened.
Plans for the future they discussed, but, with their leader gone, these hardened men were still as helpless as children.
Even these hardened denizens of the underworld shuddered.
It was of such a dark and criminal nature that even Herbert Balcom, hardened as he was himself, was for the moment appalled at his son's temerity.
His mouth hardened in a subtle smile as he sauntered after Eva to bid her farewell.
The kind gentleman little knew how hardened I had become to such annoyances as hard floors and the active flea.
The path which he had trodden so often crossed at this place a sheer slope of hardened snow, in which he had cut footsteps for himself, narrow indeed, but sufficient for the safety of a careful man.
The dust of self-interest has blinded his eyes--the pride of life has hardened his heart.
The first of these he poured forth with an expression of simple sincerity, and the second with a gentle earnestness, so humble, so passionately moving, that none but the most hardened hearts could resist it.
In it we see Freneau before he has lost his early poetic dream, before he has become hardened by close contact with the world of affairs and the cold, practical round of political life.
How could my heart, more hard than hardened steel, Laugh at the pangs that mangled captives feel?
Ten years of his early life had passed, it is said, in connection with the Jesuits, and his strong mind had hardened to iron under the discipline of that relentless school.
Most of his followers, however, hardened amidst war and bloodshed, were bent on indiscriminate slaughter; a purpose which they concealed from their more moderate associates.
There must be some way of putting a stop to their running wild like that, especially with two hardened old diplomatists like you and myself working together.
And she had carefully hardened herself from youth up, for she had a dread of becoming old and invalid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hardened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
