Sentence examples for grew tough from inspiring English sources

Their skins grew tough, horny, and dry and sometimes received bony contributions from the dermis.

Sent to reform school and later raped by a neighbour, she grew tough but resilient; her passion for singing appeared by her early teens.

The old lady garden is all the plants your grandmother grew, tough old "pass-alongs," like Jewels of Opar, which looks like a sedum with an airy spray of white flowers, and an upright morning glory, which is a woody plant you'd never find in a garden center.

When Jesus Sequeira's wife, Yadira, died in 2008 from lung cancer, times soon grew tough.

He grew a beard and walked around barefoot until the soles of his feet grew tough, like elephant hide.

Initially tepid allied responses grew tougher.

As each of the four proposals evolved, he said, it grew tougher and tougher to make a final call.

After the first report, the Firestone response to the station grew tougher.

Unilever, the world's largest producer of food and soap, said Wednesday that its quarterly profits dropped by almost a fifth, as competition in most markets grew tougher.

Then Mr. Fazlullah's demands grew tougher, including a call for the banning of polio vaccinations for children, health officials here said.

As the Mets lost three of the four games to the dismal Diamondbacks 47-599), it grew tougher to imagine them contending for the National League wild-card berth.