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How to use hardscrabble in a sentence

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As a golden boy, first in his class at West Point, and a Rhodes Scholar, he stood apart from the hardscrabble world of the combat arms.
He uses their millions to advertise his hardscrabble origins and oneness with the masses.
We can start with a tiny company in a hardscrabble nickel-and-dime industry and build it into a billion-dollar business.
Many people in the audience were skeptical, because their experience has been that it's a hardscrabble existence.
And at age 29, after seven hardscrabble years as a professional triathlete, Radkewich fully understands his PR responsibilities.
The residents' hardscrabble backgrounds vary greatly, but Beckvold said the women seldom pass judgment.
His linen shirt and suspenders hung slackly on his frame, and his sunken cheeks gave him the look of a hardscrabble farmer from a century ago.
Their harrowing escape to Erbil has ended in a precarious and hardscrabble existence.
But here we are proud of our western heritage: the hardscrabble tradition of pioneers, depression era wheat farmers, and cattle ranchers.
He seemed touchy and easily wounded by the hardscrabble game of politics at which Milk thrived.
But while the hardscrabble lives Grannan conveys may have affinities with Lange's weathered mother, her aim is not documentary.
Mankind soldiers on, living out a hardscrabble life on the surface or holing up in great Vaults built inside caves.
Luxury items long denied a nation of hardscrabble origins were suddenly within grasp, from zippy cars to designer food.
Mr. Gotti's father, an often unemployed day laborer, led a hardscrabble life.
At Big Valley, a co-ed pre-K-12 in hardscrabble Modesto, Calif., the trip to Washington D.C. has been an annual rite of passage.
Today for many in hardscrabble, majority-Latino Salinas, home to 150,000 people, The Grapes of Wrath is less lyrical than real.
Jewel has gone country, perhaps sensing her hardscrabble youth was wasted on folk rock.
But this hardscrabble, prairie town, with its population of 5,000 people, cast its charm on Ballantine.
For many fans, her hardscrabble youth and rough-and-tumble style were viewed as endearing strengths.
In his hardscrabble campaign, there might not even have been a podium ready to welcome him.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mo Mercer was the oracle of the renowned village of hardscrabble.
The current system, he said, had made lives of poor miserable and hardscrabble.
This is his journal of the problems and rewards, humorous moments, and financial difficulties of a man of letters on a hardscrabble farm.
The village of Podunk looks down on the neighboring town of hardscrabble.
Its cost was to be seventy thousand dollars, which was an enormous sum in those hardscrabble days.
The rivals'' fates rest on an end-of-term exam, which must be passed or Dean Hardscrabble will expel them from the course.
Billy Crystal and John Goodman return as Mike and Sulley and are joined by Helen Mirren as Dean Hardscrabble.
It is a classy romp packed with wacky monsters and great comedy moments, with Helen Mirren wonderful as the voice of the terrifying college head Dean Hardscrabble.
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