Sentence examples for hard time lighting from inspiring English sources

Laura was having a hard time lighting her cigarette.

Too small, and you'll have a hard time lighting a fire or a cigarette.

The Hammonds were caught in a judicial clusterfuck involving minimum sentencing and the War on Terror, and the Bundys weren't happy to hear that they'd be doing five years of hard time for lighting fires on federal land in 2001 and 2006, in what the government claims was arson.

Or did he just have a hard time finding a light?

The company will have a hard time keeping the lights on waiting for its market to come to age.

Elleithee said that it's crucial for O'Malley to break through in tonight's debate, "or else he'll have a really hard time keeping the lights on at headquarters".

The air was filled with weed smoke and while I'm sure neither Ken nor Saigon minded, the security guy had a hard time flashing his light in enough peoples eyes.

Even in semi-automatic "sport" mode, I had a hard time keeping the engine lit on slow-down, speed-up winding roads.

Last summer, when I visited the island — a stunning patchwork of white-sand beaches, dune systems, and coastal plains, ringed by the cold northern seas — a sailor-taxi-driver told me that, during hard times, combers would light fires on the beach to lure boats to shore.

Roe and his crew had a hard time developing the various lighting contrasts for the episode.

There is one simple fact not mentioned regarding dial-and-drive restrictions ["Hands Off!" Dec. 24] that even Jerry Della Femina would have a hard time controverting or making light of: If a person took a road test with only one hand on the wheel, let alone with the distraction of being on the phone, he'd legitimately fail the test on the spot.