Made tough by habitual exposure.
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Examples for "hardened "
1 Insurance rates have hardened across the Irish market in 2010, FBD said.
2 He hardened at her provocative words-andthe sweet promises the words suggested.
3 Granted, it's not easy dealing with hardened criminals on a daily basis.
4 It was a blow in the face; his own voice hardened then.
5 Parliament had earlier passed an amendment that hardened the government's original motion.
1 But both were sea-risks of the class to which our seamen were enured .
2 Their loss, however, was such, that the advantages of the field enured to the Americans.
3 Dumouriez, with a weak and ailing constitution in his childhood, enured his body for war.
4 For all the trickery and malice which were embodied in it, only enured to the prisoner's benefit.
5 He is a wiry man, with stunted features, and has become enured to the perils of negro catching.
1 The coral seems reasonably healthy, thus far weathering-orperhaps inured to-temperaturecreep.
2 The boys, inured to marching, made the fifty miles journey before nightfall.
3 She still knew they were present, but she was inured to it.
4 In truth they are stout and valiant soldiers, and inured to war.
5 Both Shaw and myself were tolerably inured to the vicissitudes of traveling.
6 Spain needs the assistance of other nations hardened and inured to toil.
7 A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence.
8 They would be inured to the hardships they would have to endure.
9 He was inured to the hard little specks all over the house.
10 She was a masterly woman inured to command from years of school-teaching.
11 As for himself, he had simply become inured to the desperate drudgery.
12 The third, old and prudent, and inured to Welch warfare, thought otherwise.
13 Thus he was a constant sufferer till he became inured to school-life.
14 He was inured to early rising, and never permitted to be idle.
15 The flagellant's curse, he thought, to grow inured even to the whip.
16 It is inconceiveable that Irish society would ever become inured to such violence.
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