Sentence examples for hard air from inspiring English sources

Sink gave off a hard air of competence.

She saw how hard air travel can be on older people if their physical needs are not properly met.

His kick drums are exquisitely designed, like darts of hard air, and there is a kind of Bond-villainish evil to the malevolent craft of it all.

You have to play by his rules to perceive its complicated splendor, or find yourself like Branford the bee, stuck behind a pane of "hard air" and unable to reach the flower beyond it.

The hiker's familiar stretches of glumness are recorded just as vividly as the inevitable moments of exhilaration, as when he walks into the wind's "boulders and logs of hard air" up on Haughton Common in Northumberland.

And the further I climb the more adamant it gets in its opposition, as if a whole North Atlantic weather front has come bursting through the collapsed dam of Bellcrag Flow, pouring through the gap, so that any progress is progress upstream, against the flood, into the rapids, with boulders and logs of hard air piling into me and knocking me sideways.

The leader of a V-shaped flock works the hardest, fighting strong air currents while others save energy by traveling in his wake.

Page 7. In a reflection of Southern California's increasingly hard line against air polluters, a regional agency there has imposed a $1 million fine on the Lockheed Corporation.

We slurped on fresh-fallen snow; drew hard, pure air like knives up our nostrils.

But there were glitches, and gasoline was so cheap it was even hard for air to compete.

France is trying to stabilize the south while hitting hard with air power at Islamist bases and concentrations in the north.