hardened

Example Sentences

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“It hardened the resolve in the region and cemented the alignment within the Gulf with the U.S.”

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Demands have also hardened on the other side.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

City life has hardened her daughters and granddaughters in all the wrong ways and made them too soft in others.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

U.S. bases and installations throughout the Indo-Pacific—such as in Japan, the Philippines and Guam—are in desperate need of hardened aircraft shelters, air defenses, reinforced munitions storage bunkers and fuel bladders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

As my mom rushed her to a hospital to have her finger sewn back on, my sister hardened her expectations for the world into a tight ball.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri