case-hardened
Example Sentences
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For $10, the store will drill case-hardened screws to the bottom of shoes.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2016
Like Lauren Bacall and Veronica Lake, both of whom she resembled, Scott proved a perfect fit for the genre, easily able to play the case-hardened siren who snared and sometimes betrayed the anti-hero male star.
From US News • Feb. 7, 2015
Even the most case-hardened judge can be confronted with a set of facts that still have the capability to shock.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2014
It bred in Sargent a case-hardened adaptability, a compliance with wherever he happened to be and a precocious sophistication that, refracted through his large pictorial talent, made him the stylist he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chubb, in 1835, patented a process of rendering wooden safes burglar proof by lining them with steel, or case-hardened iron plate.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
