grow hardened
Example Sentences
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Soon the girls will grow hardened to the reality that plagues the sparkling and verdant highlands surrounding their remote village.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021
At least Laura took it as a gibe, and scowled darkly; for she could never grow hardened to ridicule.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel
As our bodies accustom themselves to luxury and cleanliness, theirs grow hardened to deprivation and filth.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van
It is astonishing how soon we grow hardened to such spectacles.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter
People grow hardened by association with danger, but the importance of good and sufficient drainage for a capital in which malarial fevers prevail hardly requires argument.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray
