hard sell

Example Sentences

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The climate argument is a particularly hard sell among the holdout landowners.

From New York Times

It’s often a hard sell to get younger adults to save for retirement, especially if they are saddled with education loans.

From Washington Post

While the community transmission rate of the virus here is now the highest it has been since February, the number of cases is relatively low — making vaccination an especially hard sell among residents.

From Washington Post

Considered as an imposition on consumers, higher gas taxes are indeed a hard sell, politically, although many states have raised their levies to fund transportation infrastructure and other needs in recent years.

From Washington Post

Before that, he said, the business broke about even, adding that radon can be “a hard sell.”

From Washington Post