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How to use hard pressed in a sentence

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Not surprisingly, this vast and disparate cast of characters is hard pressed to agree on so vast and disparate an agenda.
For a hard pressed working class couple it could mean an unpaid gas bill or going short of food.
A person in a motion capture suit would be hard pressed to perform an octopus.
Consequently, he is an unsympathetic character, whom he is hard pressed to make sympathetic.
And I'd be hard pressed to remember many of these poor souls, either by name or face.
Any comparative neuroanatomist would be hard pressed to list the neural specializations for feeding in ray-finned fishes or flight in birds.
Like the most popular girl at school, you'd be hard pressed to find a single, solitary fault with the group.
You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
You would be hard pressed to find a creatine supplement with more direct research supporting its formula and ingredients.
You'd be hard pressed to find a better condensing of urban humdrum in under forty minutes this autumn.
Even the most ingenious taster can be hard pressed to find adjectives to describe the quintessential flavour of Sylvaner.
Without them, an audience would be hard pressed to sympathize with Walter without their reactions descending into pity.
One would be hard pressed to point out a single fat man among these thousands.
Having eaten these we were hard pressed to ignore the shop counter as we departed.
You are hard pressed to assert a fundamental error in circumstances in which counsel seem to think nothing of it.
The gentleman in question has been pastor to the whole community for more than 40 years and a finer man you'd be hard pressed to find.
You would be hard pressed to not have someone that doesn't know what point I am getting at or trying to allude to.
In fact, I would be hard pressed to think of a more perfect definition of human misery and degradation.
Things were helped by its non-US grosses being much greater than that, but still the studio would have been hard pressed to get its outlay back.
Hence, I would be hard pressed to conclude that a charge under this section would, ipso facto, disentitle one to bail.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Burke took refuge, as his wont was when too hard pressed, in a mighty bellow.
Already the supply of crude petroleum is hard pressed by the demand for fuel oil.
The king was hard pressed by the queen, and at last forced water from his own goglet into the Ray's mouth.
Who drove us into the arms of Athens, when we were hard pressed by the tyranny of Thebes?
To this island Archilochus himself, hard pressed by poverty, afterwards removed.
Consequently, there are many who, though hard pressed by the exigences of nature, never use the place.
Basle was once surrounded by enemies, and very hard pressed on all sides.
The duellist when hard pressed is apt to give way before his opponent.
The burghers were hard pressed by the enemy, and many were unmounted.
I was hard pressed to defend myself and yet not strike down Sab Than and, with him, my last chance to win the woman I loved.
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