hardened
Example Sentences
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But we have not hardened them against a more present and increasingly destructive threat.
From Los Angeles Times
Those were hardened industry types there last night.
From Los Angeles Times
The 12-foot-tall press punches ribbons of the sheet steel into hardened metal dies that bend and shape the steel into dump-truck beds, frames and other parts that are riveted together.
But when the distance was less than 10 feet, only 45% of the hardened homes escaped with no damage.
From Los Angeles Times
Poor relations with the U.S. have only hardened China’s resolve to become self-reliant in critical technologies from semiconductors to automobiles.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
