indurate
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering.
From Time Magazine Archive
When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood.
From Time Magazine Archive
When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet was the heart of Pharaoh hard and so indurate that he would not do as God bade.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
HAMSKEKPIR, prob. from hams, hide; and the v. skerpa, to sharpen, also to dry, to indurate.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
Both indurated by early Nintendo gaming and an inherited tradition of rote replication duplicated many orthodox video gaming tropes.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2018
This has become a matter of indurated faith, resistant to any insert of mere fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fifteen years lad was thick set and sturdy, and stood his ground well, but he was no match for the man of more toughened frame and indurated muscle.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
Their component particles are usually not much rounded by attrition, and the rocks have often been considerably indurated by pressure and mineral changes, such as the introduction of interstitial silica.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
Education takes the individual while he is relatively plastic, before he has become so indurated by isolated experiences as to be rendered hopelessly empirical in his habit of mind.
From How We Think by John Dewey
Contact with the world is an indurating process; I really did not know how hard I had grown, until I felt my heart soften at sight of you.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Why should any one go through an indurating process?
From Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner
Flowering glume papery-membranaceous, dry and sometimes indurating with age, rounded or flattish on the back, 5–many-nerved, scarious at the entire blunt summit.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Released from the indurating business of daily chores and the calculations of house-keeping, and placidly secure in a miser's infatuation, she lived an almost effortless emotional existence.
From Command by William McFee
