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 subtext is that this may be the only real-income increase hard-pressed workers will get.

  • You would be hard-pressed to find a more admirable enterprise.

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

  • Charles Stewart Parnell, an Irish member of parliament, took up the cause, and the Land Acts, which enabled hard-pressed tenants to buy their land, were passed.


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