Sentence examples for hardscrabble background from inspiring English sources

She was from a hardscrabble background.

Like Elmore, Holt came from a hardscrabble background.

So Edith certainly knew about her cloth coat, and perhaps about her hardscrabble background.

From that hardscrabble background, he struggled on to an internship at Goldman Sachs.

BALLAST Against the hardscrabble background of the Mississippi Delta, a single mother (Tarra Riggs) fights to save her son from the temptations of drugs and crime.

If Busnelli's hardscrabble background compelled him to embrace the pastimes of the moneyed classes -- like hunting, and collecting houses -- it also made him a driven businessman.

Some -- like Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Clinton, came from humble, hardscrabble backgrounds.

Boxing promoter Richard Schaefer, who has been friends with Espinoza for more than a decade, said the executive's experience of growing up in a border town where he saw the struggles of immigrants inside and outside his family probably made him empathetic to the hardscrabble backgrounds of many fighters, enabling him to gain their trust.

Sanger's background was hardscrabble.

The Yale graduate and child of privilege assumed, Jimmy Carter style, a hardscrabble pose to assert that his "background may lack the polish of Washington".

They came from vastly different backgrounds: Dad had a hardscrabble upbringing in the dusty Southwest, while Mom was a frail, bookish New York City girl.