How to use "hard" in a sentence

It hits my left hand hard against the canyon wall

I scream and pull hard to try and free myself

I will need to hit it hard

I hit the boulder as hard as I can and the piece of rock falls onto my trapped arm

I didn't try hard enough the last time

I push hard but the skin doesn't break

Then I pick up the multi-tool, open the shorter knife and push it hard into my arm

The urine tastes better at night because it's colder, but it's still going to be a long, hard night

Then, shaking hard, I continue chipping at the boulder

Why not find a hard rock and use it to break the boulder? There's one in a hole in the canyon wall above me

I hit the rock hard against the boulder

I pick up the black rock and hit it as hard as I can against the boulder

As I'm removing these with the knife I push too hard and the blade goes through the skin near my wrist

I believe we are on Earth to do the things we love, even if that means making a hard choice

It was very cold and I tried hard to get to the top and breathe

At that moment, I touched something hard

Everything was quiet for a short time, then something hard hit her arm.

We worked hard, all that summer, and that autumn and winter and the next spring

'I'm just going to work hard,' I told myself

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

That night it rained hard and Mrs Cox could not sleep well

He worked very hard and nearly had a nervous breakdown.

Jean Valjean's face, which had been hard and fierce, suddenly softened

Madeleine, looking hard at Javert without expression, said quietly, 'I'm afraid I don't understand.'

He would lose everything that he had worked so hard to achieve

'Times are very hard,' Mme Thenardier replied immediately

The beggar raised his face and stared hard at Valjean for just a second, then quickly bowed his head

Life was hard for him, but he never forgot the promise he had made his father: that he would find Thenardier, the man who had saved his father's life, and help him in any way he could.

The girl looked hard at him for a minute.

The tall, grey-haired man was doing useful work on the larger barricade, and Eponine (whom everyone thought was a boy) worked hard too

The rebels fought long and hard to defend the stronghold, but finally they had to withdraw to the low wall outside the wine shop

The attendant has a hard face and fierce red hair

She's only going to be one minute!" he shouts, and the attendant stops and gives him a long, hard look with his cold, blue eyes.

He then gives him another long, hard look, but Oliver does not care.

For a second she is silent, but then she speaks again, though this time her voice is hard and angry

Then he laughs, and the two assistants laugh, and then the back of Hank's hand slaps Jimmy's face hard

In a simulator, it was hard to forget that there were four walls just five or six steps away - but in a pod, you lost your awareness of the world around you

it's hard to say

It's going to be hard

"We're low on energy units already, so it's hard

This was going to be hard

"Well, he can't leave the pod for two years, can he?" Wena's eyes were calm, but hard, too

But none of Cham's grandparents were alive, so maybe it wasn't surprising that he found it hard to believe in another world.

You're giving me a hard time here, you know that?"

"It's been hard for her, all this business about Uncle Eston

It's hard to fight that kind of influence

Gran gave her a long, hard stare

This was hard

Really hard

She put down her fork and stared at him hard

'You are wrong, I could never forget you,' said de Winter in a cold, hard voice.

On the front page there was some writing - hard, clear writing in black ink:

When we left London, it was raining hard

Her pale, thin face was hard

As I thanked her, Mrs Danvers looked at me with her hard, dark eyes

I work very hard

'Mrs de Winter?' said a hard, deep voice, 'Mrs de Winter?'

Maxim had told me how hard Frank Crawley worked for Manderley

Maxim's face was hard

She was a kind woman and tried hard to make me talk

His face was dark with anger and his voice was hard.

He was a big, handsome man, but his face was red and his eyes were a hard blue

The wind was blowing hard

His face was white and his mouth hard

When Maxim answered, his voice was cold and hard

His eyes were cold and hard, not the eyes of the man I knew and loved

'Well, he's a man, isn't he?' she said with a hard laugh

Her voice was loud and hard.

Maxim's voice was hard and angry.

And dangerous too, perhaps.' Maxim stared hard at Favell.

I recognized Rebecca's hard, black writing.

Without warning, Maxim went up to Favell and hit him hard

Once again, I saw Colonel Julyan give Maxim a hard look

She had taken several steps up in her career during the past year, and she had relied on hard work as a sort of morphine, using it to dull her pain until the wound fully healed.

Though she always resisted the grim truth, it gradually exerted itself every time, and she was repeatedly brought down hard, forced to accept that the dream was not a premonition

Suddenly the sky was shattered by lightning, then by a hard clap of thunder, and the night imploded into a deeper darkness, into infinite and perfect blackness.

Although she wasn't much of a drinker, indulging in nothing more than a glass of wine now and then, with no capacity whatsoever for hard liquor, she finished the bourbon in two swallows

Whoever it was, he wanted to rub her face in the tragedy that she was trying so hard to forget.

She believed in the moral value of hard work, and she always gave her employers their money's worth.

Gradually Vivienne's heartbeat subsided from the hard, frantic rhythm that it had been keeping for the past couple of minutes

She hugged him hard, and Joel proclaimed the show to be a "gargantua if I ever saw one."

After a hard day of crime fighting, you can get stinking drunk and throw up on yourself, and it doesn't matter

He was trying so hard to be nice, which wasn't like Michael at all

"You're a damn hard woman to hate."

It's hard for you to get around to it

It was a mentally and physically debilitating experience - it was hard -and I loved every minute of it! God willing, I'm going to do it again

In the hard light, the enormous architectural confections were not always appealing; at times, in spite of the billions of dollars of value that it represented, the Strip looked grubby.

"And the boys competed hard all year for the chance to be one of those selected to go on the trip

I understand how hard it must be never to know why."

"Very hard."

That's why I'm having such a hard time accepting that he's gone

"Their hamburgers are hard to beat."

His hands moved over her, testing the firmness and resilience of her, and she touched him too, gently squeezing his shoulders, his arms, the hard muscles of his back

He had an awful suspicion that fate was setting him up for another hard fall

Harry Kennebeck had a poker face that also looked like a poker - hard and plain, dark - and it was difficult to tell if he had any sympathy whatsoever for Tina's plight

You don't have to be so hard-assed with me

Physically, he was still hard, tough; but mentally and emotionally, he was softer than he had been in his prime

He preferred to deal with hard facts, realities; that was why he was such a good attorney, so adept at taking threads of evidence and weaving a good case out of them.

But a bunch of hard-nosed security men might not have seen it that way."

What had happened to Danny might still prove to be terrible, shattering, but she didn't think it would be as hard to accept as his "death" had been

Willis Bruckster stared at them, then crumpled his game card with obvious disappointment and disgust, as if he had lost a few hard-earned dollars.

Kennebeck had lifted himself out of poverty through hard work and steely determination

Alexander knew nothing of hard work; he had ascended to the top of his field as if he were a prince with a divine right to rule.

While we're working so hard to keep ahead of our enemies, aren't we perhaps becoming more like them? Aren't we becoming a totalitarian state, the very thing we say we despise?"

Pale light from a street lamp pierced the windshield, revealing a hard-edged determination in her face, steely resolution in her blue eyes.

At the corner, he ignored the stop sign and swung the car hard to the left, only tapping the brakes once, severely testing the Chevy's suspension.

It's been a hard day's night."

"Don't be so hard on yourself."

An entire battalion of nitpickers and fussbudgets would be hard-pressed to find a speck of dust in this room.

Do you know how to use snowshoes? It can't be that hard."

"I'm a small circlet of hard candy?"

A brisk wind spilled over the jagged horizon under a low and menacing sky, snapping ice-hard flurries of snow against the windshield of the Explorer.

Plows had kept the blacktop clean, except for scattered patches of hard-packed snow that filled the potholes, and snow was piled five or six feet high on both sides.

The road descended into a gully, swung hard to the left this time, and then headed up again.

Elliot rammed his foot down hard on the accelerator, and the Explorer shot forward.

As they ascended into the night, snow began to fall hard and fast in sheets of fine, dry flakes.

The flakes were hard, dry, and granular; they hissed like driven sand across the Perspex windscreen.

He was trying hard not to think about the chopper, the bad weather, and the likelihood that they would take a long, swift, hard fall into a remote mountain ravine.

I wasn't hit that hard

Tamaguchi drove us very hard until we isolated the antibody and figured out why it was so effective against the disease

Now, as she approached his bed, she bit her lower lip so hard that she tasted blood

But he hugged her very hard, and again she was surprised by how much strength he could still summon from his devastated body

I found it hard to imagine Griselda like that.

I pulled my horse's head hard round to the right

By ten o'clock the police were finding it hard to keep control.

Realizing from his face that a fight was unavoidable, and being a good boxer, my brother hit him hard and knocked him back onto the wheel of the cart.

'Point the gun at the man behind,' he said, giving it to her, 'it he pushes us too hard

I was sitting near him, listening hard

I stepped over him and stood there breathing hard

'Watson,' he said, 'if you should ever think that I am becoming too confident in my powers, or that I am not working hard enough on a particular case, please whisper "Norbury" in my ear, and I will be infinitely obliged to you.'

The hard work on the boat will make us hungry, so we'll enjoy our food

It is raining hard

After ten minutes of hard work, Harris was inside the cover! He was fighting to get out

This was hard work

But when we peeled our first potato, we understood that this was not exciting - it was hard work

We worked hard for half an hour, but we peeled only four potatoes

But it's hard not to think about it

The sound of its super-smooth engine was soft and gentle, unlike the hard banging of the girl's high-heeled shoes

Mrs Catherick was a hard-looking woman dressed in black

The vicar says hello to me! But back then, when Anne was a child, my life was very hard

This is thanks to brave women like Emmeline Pankhurst and Hatoon al-Fassi who fought so hard and won.

Feminists have also worked hard to stop sexual assault and other crimes against women at work and at home.

It was hard, dirty work, and there was not much free time

They also worked long hours and got very low pay - and it was very hard work.

Hillary is a lawyer, and in her career, she has worked hard for the rights of women and of families

But, in many countries, it is still hard for women to enter into politics