hardened
Example Sentences
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Papal visits are a spectacle first and foremost: a fun day out even for a hardened skeptic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Across the surrounding countryside, seepages resemble miniature volcanoes overflowing with crude and leaving hardened black trails.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
As a physically smaller woman, she said she found tackling some of them "intimidating", but had become more hardened to it through experience.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Amid statues and posters of the Virgen de Guadalupe was a rosary that a man had made of hardened bread during his months in an immigration detention facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Like the night bombers, the pilots of the 586th Regiment in their dangerous solo Yak fighters were growing hardened in combat too.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
