Sentence examples for sentences hard from inspiring English sources

Even when he is reciting formulaic union position statements, he does so in a gentle way, with an upward, questioning lilt to his sentences, hard to combine with a fist-thumping delivery.

After graduating, it wasn't like "clown school or Yale?" Still, the trace metals made sentences hard.

The goal of the present study is to elucidate the nature of selective activations to reversible object-embedded clauses by distinguishing the effects of 2 different factors that make these sentences hard to process.

(More broadly, the passive voice and convoluted structure make this sentence hard to read).

Furthermore, anything that makes a sentence longer than it ought to be -- including words that aren't essential -- makes a sentence harder to parse.

Every day in the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, convicted murderers are sentenced to hard time for taking the lives of people who never asked to die.

For now, defendants like Nate can only be sentenced to hard time in a state prison for adults, perhaps for the rest of their lives.

My memory of that brief sentence to hard time: being screamed at and pounded on in Western Pennsylvania's late-summer heat by coaches who prowled the grass like the guards from "Cool Hand Luke".

Prisoners on long sentences do hard time; students corrected by ultraprescriptive grammarians say, "Don't give me a hard time".

At one point he says: "Sentences are hard.

Her sentences are hard and compact, more gem than flesh.