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Example sentences for: hardball

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

While you were writing yesterday's last dispatch, I was eating noodles and steamed vegetables from a palatable take-out joint in Tribeca, watching Hardball , and preparing to tuck my almost-5-year-old son into bed.
The government's lawyers suspect that the real source of Lamberth's ire is not the sloppy sentence in an affidavit but the government attorneys' hardball tactics and unwillingness to compromise, which drew the case out for four years .
Whereas Republicans would have to play hardball to beat Al Gore, Bradley is a "listless and uninspiring" candidate who could be vanquished quietly and nobly.
Hardball must be hard.
But at least they're something to fill an hour of Hardball .