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Example sentences for: hard-won

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Never mind that a wily Internet jackal, in the form of Matt Drudge, leapt out of the jungle of cyberspace and ran off with a juicy chunk of Spikey's hard-won meal.
For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's "dream songs"), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.
Armed with the hard-won discoveries I sacrificed my waistline for, you can go to your supermarket and confidently fill your shopping cart.
Where is all that hard-won cynicism that now marks the American character?
This is freedom hard-won, the fruit of wars and sacrifice and struggle.