Sentence examples for hardened than from inspiring English sources

" 'Giants baseball: torture.' " The phrase resonated with fans, who Kuiper says, see themselves as more hardened than most — not just from a long history of excruciating defeats but also from years of having to watch games in the miserable conditions at Candlestick Park.

The images are as confused as ever — Mr. Armstrong runs through plenty of dull grandiosity to make his points — but the lyrics are more elegiac and hardened than on "American Idiot," the band's extremely popular last record, and the benchmark it now must live up to.

They are more hardened than I am.

The staff were more hardened than the cons.

However, they may never have been to school and are considerably more hardened than the newly orphaned children.

I'd like to be a little more match-hardened than I am.

Blair is more disciplined and battle-hardened than Clinton was in 1992, and he has carefully avoided Clinton's mistake of making promises he can't keep.

General Cody looked around the auditorium, packed with men and women in uniform — most of them in their mid-20s, three decades his junior but far more war-hardened than he or his peers were at the same age — and turned Captain Wignall's question around.

The tests results showed, that nitrided layers thickness is bigger on a base of the 17-4 PH stainless steel in precipitation-hardened, than in supersaturated state.

More hardened sides than Arsenal would not have permitted such a night to contain anything more than a thorough and uncomplicated victory.

Class distinctions are less hardened today than they were when I was a student at Oxford at the height of the Thatcher-era "Brideshead Revisited" chic.