Sentence examples for doing hard time from inspiring English sources

This Sundance award winner is a poignant portrait of Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi), a nurse doing hard time in emotional limbo while her husband serves a prison sentence.

Inside the walls of unpainted concrete slabs, barbed wire slashes the prison yards into zones for those doing hard time and minor offenders.

Some of the biggest fans of a radio station run by students at Princeton University tune in while doing hard time in New Jersey's prisons and correctional facilities.

More Arts News Each episode tells the story of someone who is married to an inmate doing hard time and unlikely to get out of prison any time soon.

Sackler was now completing two full-length films about the place — one fiction, one nonfiction — with little in common save the setting, a few faces, and a resolute regard for the humanity of men doing hard time.

I was not about to tell some guys doing hard time at the Tombs that they should concentrate more on our toilet — both because it didn't seem like a great idea to do so, and also because it wasn't their toilet and they weren't my domestic servants.

Michael Vick did hard time.

Those bankers who committed fraud will do hard time.

Prisoners on long sentences do hard time; students corrected by ultraprescriptive grammarians say, "Don't give me a hard time".

For all his talk of prison, he never did do hard time, but hard times he knew well enough.

When Darius was growing up, his father was in and out of jail; at least once, his father had done hard time.