Hard

Luckily she wasn’t there any more, no one was, when he returned from the Caribbean carnival damp-hatted and soaked through after being caught unprepared by a squall of hard, hot rain.

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

hard cider, hard lemonade, hard seltzer, hard soda

Stunned, she deleted his number and went home. Then she cracked a hard seltzer, opened her phone’s camera and filmed a TikTok video recounting the evening […].

While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines.

hard X-rays

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 stone circle is small and hard to find and the search is made harder because all down the beck cars are parked on the verge and the supposedly unfrequented road up the valley very busy.

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.

It’s been said that, for nonstellar teachers at least, the hardest things to teach are the things one loves most.

a hard life

a hard master;  a hard heart;  hard words;  a hard character

The senator asked the party chief to put the hard word on his potential rivals.

[L]eave off fornicating, leave the Girls to the Boys, and ſtand to thy Bottle: It is a Virtue becoming our Years; and don't be too hard on a vvild honeſt young Rake.

The stag was too hard for the horse.

a power which will be always too hard for them

a hard site

He thinks he's well hard.

I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.

This song goes hard.

This guy always has the hardest fits.

hard evidence;  a hard requirement

[…]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".

Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.

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

a soft or hard copy; a digital or hard archive

a hard reboot or reset

hard right, hard left

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

He hit the puck hard up the ice.

They worked hard all week.

The recession hit them especially hard.

Think hard about your choices.

The couple were fucking each other hard.

Be nought diſmayd that her vnmoued mind, / doth ſtill perſiſt in her rebellious pride: / ſuch loue not lyke to luſts of baſer kynd, / the harder vvonne, the firmer vvill abide.

[…] My father / Is hard at study. Pray now, rest yourself; […]

prayed so hard for mercy from the prince

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?

His degree was hard earned.

The question is hard set.

The lake had finally frozen hard.

At the intersection, bear hard left.

The King your brother is now hard at hand, / Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders / Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands / And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.

[…]whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

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 […]

He brought the dinghy up to the careening hard. Two or three boats lay on their sides on the sloping roadway, but there was no sign of life.

The prisoners were sentenced to three years' hard.

He knows vain men: he sees their harts that hard them In Guiles and Wiles, and will not hee regard them?

Unlike achievable and realistic goals that leave you stuck in the status-quo, HARD Goals light up the brain and encourage great performance.