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Example sentences for "pretty hard"

  • Yesterday was a pretty hard day, getting ready for Commencement--my mind was tired out.

  • You must find it pretty hard," he remarked, with covert reproach, "to keep from being happy.

  • Don't rouse my anger--when I lose grip on myself, I'm pretty hard to stop.

  • I want to understand these things that I see, and sometimes it is pretty hard to do so without an explanation.

  • In this country there is so much moisture and so many rocks, that it's pretty hard for a man to get around at all.

  • You're a pretty hard man to convince, Hardwick," he said slowly, when the big cigar was filling the air of the lobby with its fragrance.

  • Somebody must have been hitting you pretty hard.

  • Zeb Meader, "I have found it pretty hard to git, but there's some things I won't do for it.

  • I guess it would be pretty hard to get it across to you, Mrs. Pindar.

  • He worked his way through, and had a pretty hard time of it.

  • I've got to turn out these machines in order that our soldiers may have shrapnel to fight with, and what with enlistments and the determination of unscrupulous workmen to take advantage of the situation, I'm pretty hard pressed.

  • But that's pretty hard to say with modern pens.

  • Well, it is pretty hard to produce some order out of it, because I never got a complete picture.

  • It is pretty hard to say just where the scope of your probing should go--a reasonable amount of probing should go and where you have to hold down the gate.

  • Well, it's pretty hard because I meet so many people that's come in and out.

  • He had found it pretty hard to meet his monthly hire, consequently he was on the look-out to better his condition as soon as a favorable opportunity might offer.

  • It's pretty hard to tell in these days where the body ends and the soul begins.

  • You know how much good a Camp Fire would do in Hedgeville, but it would be pretty hard to get one started.

  • After all, it's pretty hard to carry a girl like Zara off and keep her a prisoner against her will.

  • You might be forgiven for telling lies, if you was real sorry for them, but if you murdered any one it would be pretty hard to get forgiven, so you'd better be on the safe side.

  • Dan is pretty hard to get along with as usul, but I try to bear pashently with him.

  • But he was a Scotchman, you know, and it's pretty hard to stick a Scotchman long.

  • Mrs. Van Wyck gave each quart a "settle" by shaking it pretty hard, and Joe had to put in another large handful.

  • It's pretty hard work at first," he answered with a smile.

  • You must find it pretty hard to get along," condescended Mrs. Osgood.

  • I ducked my head, and he hit it a pretty hard lick.

  • We would have some very hard games at times, and we found it pretty hard to hold our own.

  • Well, to tell you the truth, it was a pretty hard fight; but I got one good lick at him with my head, and that won the battle for me.

  • About four o'clock in the morning the second steward came up to me and gave me a pretty hard kick in the side that hurt me, and called out: "Get up here, and put your mattress away.

  • I know that I have caused you a great deal of worry, but it is a pretty hard matter to live a lie even when it is imposed as a duty.

  • You've had a pretty hard time of it, haven't you, Hank?

  • Then you want er talk quick, 'cause after I'm settled down, it'll be a pretty hard job to make any trade with me.

  • The wolf is a pretty hard animal to trap, writes a Minnesota trapper.

  • The beaver, as I know him, is a very shy and cunning animal, always on guard against danger, which makes it pretty hard to trap, unless the trapper thoroughly knows his ways and habits.

  • The otter is a pretty hard animal to catch.

  • He looks as though he'd had a pretty hard time of it--kind of a discard in the game, I guess.

  • There's no accounting for the way some things come about--and it's pretty hard to call the turn of the card when Dame Fortune deals the bank.

  • Still I couldn't help thinking that, unless we had the Hercules to help us, it would be a pretty hard job.

  • We started climbing soon after, and the mules had a pretty hard time of it for the next three hours, zigzagging up the most appalling road, panting and grunting.

  • She'll be a pretty hard nut to tackle, sir; she's got eight twelve-inch guns on a broadside.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another form; before noticed; business letters; earlier agreement; enfilading fire; ever were; knees before; other persons; pretty certain; pretty close; pretty considerable; pretty eyes; pretty face; pretty fair; pretty fellow; pretty girl; pretty hard; pretty high; pretty maid; pretty nearly; pretty nigh; pretty place; pretty sure; pretty thick; pretty things; pretty well