hard-pressed
Example Sentences
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And of course in many areas of the U.S., you would be hard-pressed to find a home at the national median price.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Rival rocket operators are pushing to fill the void but will be hard-pressed to offer immediate relief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
And we’re hard-pressed to think of anyone who’s won a governor’s race after struggling to answer a question about whether Thanksgiving should be canceled.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
"I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody that ever got in and out of Broomfield Hospital in 30 minutes, so it always seems like a bit of a pointless kind of advertisement," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Unlike the Box at Coxsackie, which had seemed a true solitary confinement, with inmates hard-pressed to communicate with each other through solid-steel doors with Lexan windows, the cells here were barred.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
