Example sentences for: hard-pressed

How can you use “hard-pressed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You would be very hard-pressed to find someone who could argue with a straight face, pace Richard Brookhiser on George W. Bush's future prospects, that it's precisely because Jack Welch isn't that smart that he's done such a good job at GE.

  • The duplication also places extra demands on already hard-pressed single-source national technical intelligence collectors like the National Security Agency.

  • Even if the funding mechanism is upheld, legal-services groups will be hard-pressed to meet their needs because of low interest rates, according to the American Bar Association.

  • Not beloved by his people, Milosevic might be hard-pressed to retain power even with the support of his secret police, political cronies, and state-controlled media.

  • A hard-pressed life naturally tends to blunt speech.


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