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Example sentences for: hardships

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

The paper quotes an OTS official saying, "We consider it reasonable considering what OTS employees have gone through in those 10 years," but never bothers to tell the reader what those hardships were.
These toughest of all Canadians have withstood the hardships of the far north, including its icy deserts and Arctic blizzards, but were nearly wiped out by European diseases — measles, mumps, and smallpox.
Only in this case--unlike in Moynihan's--the redefinition has served to increase, rather than decrease, the required level of government intervention, shifting to the national treasury responsibility for hardships that individuals and localities once stoically assumed.
Fado songs, accompanied by classical guitar, generally deal with the hardships of seafaring life.
The WP goes more for narrative, with such passages as: "In county after county, meanwhile, people confronted hardships that seemed almost biblical in scope: Coffins sent floating away from low-lying cemeteries; portable incinerators being assembled to dispose of 100,000 dead hogs and a million drowned poultry; oceanfront homes being swept away; and thousands of residents living without safe tap water, telephones or mail service."