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Example sentences for "tougher"

Lexicographically close words:
tough; toughen; toughened; toughening; toughens; toughest; toughness; toughs; tought; toujours
  1. You picked a tougher subject, didn't you, Chris?

  2. We are now fairly up to the ears in mysticism, and cannot afford to strike out at random, for fear of being carried right off our feet by the ground-swell and drifted into waters where swimming will be yet tougher work.

  3. If not ground, the tougher meats are usually cooked a long time with water and made into a stew, a pot roast, a meat pie, or a meat loaf.

  4. Fowl is much tougher than chicken and requires careful and long cooking to make it tender.

  5. The more light around here, the tougher it's going to be for us, you know.

  6. I've heard of tougher assignments, though I don't just remember where, or when!

  7. Not even the Australians could get tougher than Uncle Sam's fighting fools.

  8. Then they hammered together till the greenwoods rang; but the metal was tougher than the pine; and Sinis' club broke right across, as the bronze came down upon it.

  9. Likewise, an older bird, which has more flavor but tougher tissues, is almost impossible as food if it is not properly prepared.

  10. Their flesh is similar in composition to that of other fish, but it is tougher and harder to digest.

  11. To carve a steak properly, cut it across from side to side so that each piece will contain a portion of the tender part, as well as a share of the tougher part.

  12. The tougher pieces of beef, such as the flank ends of the steak and parts of the rump, the round, and the chuck, may be ground fine by being forced through a food chopper.

  13. It will be remembered that the parts of an animal having long fibers are tougher and less easily digested than those having short fibers.

  14. Tender, easily broken skin indicates a young bird; tougher skin indicates an older one.

  15. In the raw state, they are easily digested, but upon the application of heat they become tough, and the longer they are cooked, the tougher they become.

  16. The greater the proportion of the oxidized cast iron, the tougher is the steel.

  17. The greater proportion of oil there is used in varnishes, the less they are liable to crack, because the tougher and softer they are.

  18. The reading public which entertained any opinion about him at all was inclined to take him for another Boehme, "with a tougher book and subtler meanings of what roses say.

  19. The block proved to be tougher than my head.

  20. I really think my not fighting him encouraged him to get tougher and rougher.

  21. Living as they did more in the open air than the valley people, sleeping in huts instead of caves, wearing few furs, they grew tougher and stronger than the people in the valley, and were very brave and hardy and daring.

  22. It was a sore trial to the youth, tougher than many a battle, to get by us creditably and with soldierlike bearing.

  23. The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms.

  24. I did not tell him that I had eaten a large one entire that afternoon, but began to think that I was tougher than a cat.

  25. The tougher neighbor is the gainer by these acts of kindness; the generosity of a sea-sick sufferer in giving away the delicacies which seemed so desirable on starting is not ranked very high on the books of the recording angel.

  26. Already our efforts to crack down on career criminals, organized crime, drugpushers, and to enforce tougher sentences and paroles are having effect.

  27. We pursued a strategy of more police, tougher punishment, smarter prevention with crime-fighting partnerships, with local law enforcement and citizen groups, where the rubber hits the road.

  28. Through stricter accounting standards and tougher disclosure requirements, corporate America must be made more accountable to employees and shareholders and held to the highest standards of conduct.

  29. There may be other things we can do to be tougher on crime, to be smarter with crime, to help to lower that rate first.

  30. But further, I urge you to consider this: As you demand tougher penalties for those who choose violence, let us also remember how we came to this sad point.

  31. Earlier this month, he took a leave of absence from his job to fight for tougher gun safety laws.

  32. But we must do more to restore discipline to schools; and we must encourage the teaching of new basics, reward teachers of merit, enforce tougher standards, and put our parents back in charge.

  33. Obviously, voluntary conservation continues to be essential, but tougher programs are needed--and needed now.

  34. Wood-cells in the bark are generally longer, finer, and tougher than those of the proper wood, and appear more like fibres.

  35. I find it impossible to write or read except at rare intervals, but am, generally speaking, tougher than formerly.

  36. I can see it in his eyes, and hear it in his voice; but I am of tougher hide and stiffer clay, and so you see I can't die even if I tried.

  37. In addition they were a tougher lot than Thompson had ever encountered.

  38. It will be a thankless task; a tougher one nor I'd care to tackle.

  39. Remember that we and the disease germs are both cells; and that, if they are numbered by millions, we are by billions; and that we are made up of far the older and the tougher cells of the two.

  40. Sit up, but don't try to get up any farther unless you want to feel this stake, which is tougher than those other steaks!

  41. And, around this neck of the woods a fellow couldn't have a harder, tougher name than Mosher.

  42. Because of a diplomatic effort to insist that Iran meet its obligations, the Iranian Government now faces tougher sanctions, tighter sanctions than ever before.

  43. It's made it harder for a hard-working family to pull itself out of poverty, harder for young people to start their careers, tougher for workers to retire when they want to.

  44. Companies in a global economy can locate anywhere, and they face tougher competition.

  45. So, from oft converse with life's wintry gales, Should man learn how to clasp with tougher roots The inspiring earth; how otherwise avails The leaf-creating sap that sunward shoots?


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tougher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.