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Example sentences for: harden

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

First, these rules harden public attitudes toward everyone accused of a crime.
The authorities visit every horror upon the narrators--sexual assault, beatings, isolation, psychological torture--at which point the narrators harden.
If adjectives soften ethnic terms, nouns can harden them.
In short, Quindlen is a sentimentalist, which is not an insult in Culturebox's book, since to harden one's heart to sentimentalism is to take oneself beyond the reach of much of American culture.
In some ways they don't gel, in others they harden into cement.