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Example sentences for "hardships"

Lexicographically close words:
hardness; hardnesse; hardpan; hardshell; hardship; hardtack; hardware; hardwood; hardwoods; hardworking
  1. At length, after difficulties and hardships innumerable, they landed at Hull; and Henry made his way to some of his relations, who took care of him and set him on his legs again.

  2. Henry Sherwood had had a curious history, and had endured many hardships and adventures in his youthful days.

  3. The hardships and privations that he then endures, would, in a single month, utterly destroy a common constitution; but they are treated by him as matters of very little consequence, for his constitution seems to be of an iron nature.

  4. All the labor connected with the raising of corn is performed by the women, who take it upon themselves as an offset to the hardships endured by the men in hunting.

  5. Exposure and hardships have transformed him into a superb looking fellow, and he is now full of life and buoyancy, and riding with the most perfect elegance and ease a famous steed of the prairies.

  6. God knows it was hardships enough for the strong women like us to sleep out in the snow, not to mention a young girsha like yerself.

  7. Morrison was there before her, sitting beside Micky’s Jim on the end of an upturned cart, and speaking to Maire a Glan about the hardships of the field.

  8. There is nothin’ but the rainy roads and the hardships for a man like me.

  9. She must slip back to her seat at the harmonium, and defer the consideration of her own hardships until later.

  10. What his people thought of it we do not know, but the Forsters have given a piteous account of the privations and hardships of an exploration that gave them little chance of exercising their special knowledge.

  11. He labored among the natives of Bataan for a little while; but the responsibilities of this work, the hardships of missionary life, and his advanced years, were too much for him, and he died before he had spent a year in Filipinas.

  12. Though they felt confident that they would conquer with the divine aid, they made themselves ready, with prayer and fasting and suffering, for the dangers and hardships without which there is never conflict, and much less victory.

  13. He had felt himself forced to this by the evils in that community, which he could not remedy there, and by the hardships suffered by his church.

  14. But as they had come eager to suffer for God, they licked their fingers over the hardships [comianse las manos tras los trabaxos].

  15. The infirmities with which he was afflicted as a result of the exposure and the hardships which he suffered in China never entirely left him.

  16. He was a very devout friar, an aged man and venerable, whose fervor of spirit caused him to work like a youth at a time when his great age and the many hardships which he had endured justly required rest.

  17. He could not venture to take them thither, because of his fear of the great hardships that those would have to endure who ventured upon this undertaking.

  18. The sufferings and hardships of missionary life broke down his health, and he was compelled to seek medical care in Manila; but it was too late, and he died there in 1591.

  19. Boys and girls, until they are quite grown up, are, as a rule at any rate, carefully nursed and shielded from the hardships of life; but with the young crab it is otherwise.

  20. For his sake she had made sacrifices to which few mothers would have consented, had borne hardships few would have faced so nobly.

  21. Their spirit had not been beaten, for no hardships in the world will ever break that.

  22. They were joking with each other, and in high good humour, because life with all its hardships was dear to them, and they had the luck of life.

  23. German officer who had not been brutal, but, like others, had tried to soften the hardships of the people.

  24. But from a tactical point of view, apart from the hardships and perils of the men, the situation on the Canadian right was good.

  25. They have suffered tragic hardships in those five days since the battle of Arras began, but there was no wail in them.

  26. They had suffered great hardships and great perils, intensified before the battle because of violent shelling by high explosives and gas-shells, so that when the hour for attack came they had been hard tried already.

  27. Also a father and mother endure the greatest troubles and hardships for their children; and often when the children have reached the age of maturity, the parents pass on to the other world.

  28. In the severest hardships to which the army was exposed his spirits never sank.

  29. Many hardships were encountered, but the foundation of a settlement was successfully made on the Columbia.

  30. She knows well the privations, toils, and hardships which await them in the new home-land, but she tries to share the enthusiasm and hope of her children.

  31. All knew that a strange country was to be explored, and dangers and hardships to be encountered; but no one blenched at the prospect.

  32. Contrast these anticipations with the hardships and fears he encountered while groping his way through the Black Rock Desert, north of Pyramid Lake.

  33. The vigor of his mind and body was fortified by the hardships of a military and savage life.

  34. After the conquest of Mecca, the sovereign of Arabia affected to prevent the hostile preparations of Heraclius; and solemnly proclaimed war against the Romans, without attempting to disguise the hardships and dangers of the enterprise.

  35. Here they remained for three months, enduring hardships of the most variegated and worrying kind, and loyally waiting for the relieving column that never came.

  36. I have fought through hardships that have laid the best-seasoned men of all our party on their backs.

  37. Don't, pray don't, risk hardships which you are unfit to bear!

  38. Because these do not have the peace and tranquillity required, they suffer great hardships and wrongs from those who are in rebellion and unpacified.

  39. I am sending there the crippled and maimed, who are useless, so that I shall have left in this river a trifle above two hundred men, many of whom are sick, because of past hardships and their wretched existence.

  40. With this I should feel well paid and satisfied after all my hardships and wanderings.

  41. As I have said before, there were among their number men physically unfit for hardships like these.

  42. She had known all the hardships and dangers of life in an unsettled and uncivilised land, had been through a number of Kaffir wars and could speak, through personal experience, of many adventures with savage foes and wild beasts.

  43. As far as I was able I have also described the perils and hardships connected with the Secret Service of the Boers and the heroism and resource displayed by the men.

  44. He valued himself on sharing the perils and the hardships of his meanest soldier.

  45. But the class of the gentry who had very little money at command were contented with hardships from which a menial of this day would revolt.

  46. It is no uncommon mistake, with persons who ought to know better, to magnify the toils and hardships endured by the body, while those labours and anxieties that the mind undergoes are disregarded and forgotten.

  47. Since that time, with the exception of those early hardships to which all colonies seem liable, it has been flourishing and increasing.

  48. The first shows the hardships of ocean life; but stronger than hardships is the subtle call of the sea.

  49. For this reason Antony gave them all barley instead of wheat and destroyed every tenth man in some instances: indeed, the entire force which was supposed to be besieging endured the hardships of persons besieged.

  50. Setting before him all the hardships they had endured and bringing to his notice any promise he had ever made them they uttered many threats besides, and thought to render him willy-nilly their slave.

  51. As for Antony, he suffered no further harm from the enemy, but underwent severe hardships by reason of the cold.

  52. This Bucephalas had shared many hardships and incurred many dangers with Alexander during many years, being ridden by none but the king, because he rejected all other riders.

  53. Most of the historians of Alexander’s reign assert that all the hardships which his army suffered in Asia were not worthy of comparison with the labours undergone here.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hardships" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.