Sentence examples for a hard target from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a hard target" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts where something is difficult to attack, reach, or achieve, often in military or strategic discussions.
Example: "The enemy has fortified their defenses, making it a hard target for our forces to penetrate."
Alternatives: "a difficult target" or "a challenging target".

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This makes the base a hard target.

"We don't have a hard target," Mr. Barowitz said.

Mr. Lieberman has been a hard target to hit.

"We did not need this document to tell us that North Korea is a hard target," he said.

That aspiration was then revised downwards to a hard target of making Rio Britain's best ever away Games, with at least 48 medals.

Cathode rays focused on a hard target (anticathode) produce X-rays or focused on a small object in a vacuum generate very high temperatures (cathode-ray furnace).

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If anyone is assessing you and sees you are a hard target--that you pay attention to your environment--then they will look for a softer target.

You become a harder target — while remaining a target, being eagerly persuadable — for flimflam.

"Logic is a harder target," Dr. James M. Tour, a chemistry professor at Rice University in Houston, said.

She knew to bend double and run in zigzags to make herself a harder target.

By casting herself as a defender of French laïcité, or secularism, she is a harder target for mainstream politicians to attack.

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