This bread is so stale and hard, I can barely cut it.

a hard problem;  a hard question;  a hard topic

Ray found it hard to imagine having accumulated so many mannerisms before the dawn of sex, of the sexual need to please, of the staginess sex encourages or the tightly capped wells of poisoned sexual desire the disappointed must stand guard over.

The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.

[…]for, unless supported by hard facts, abusive words would recoil on him who used them, and would pass like empty air over the head of an innocent man.

Here are a few techniques to turn a hard "no" into an easy "yes"!

Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.

At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.

I got so hard watching two hot girls wrestle each other on the beach.

There is a hard c in "clock" and a soft c in "centre".

The letter ж (ž) in Russian is always hard.

a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive

Undercapitalized insurers cannot retain more catastrophe risks when the market is hard […]

I played hard, I drank hard, I rode hard, and did everything much on the same pattern.

What, then, of the voluntarist's sense that one often has to think long and hard before making agonizing choices?

It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake.

The Monastery's ironworks at Sowley were renowned for centuries but declined with the passing of the 'wooden walls' at Buckler's Hard — a great number of these ships having been built with timber from the Beaulieu Woods […]

The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard.

English

when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp

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