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
Subplots concern his romance with the niece of the rival hotelkeeper, the effects of right living on a case-hardened gambler and two thuggish assistants.
From Time Magazine Archive
If left flat or only slightly bevelled as at b, they are liable, if of steel and not hardened, or if of iron and case-hardened only, to bulge out as at c.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
