hardscrabble in English
her uncle's hardscrabble peanut farm
Use "hardscrabble" in a sentence
1. Our backgrounds are different, but we're both hardscrabble boys at heart.
2. It is a savage world, filled with badlands and bluffs and hardscrabble vegetation.
3. Mr. Kasab told police of a hardscrabble life that led him to Lashkar, they say.
4. A few days after the funeral, my dad and I played golf on Spur's hardscrabble course.
5. The bank's focus on China's hardscrabble countryside is sure to add challenges to maintaining high profitability.
6. He's a bear of a man with a hardscrabble past, an art professor who paints beautiful pictures of birds.
7. For a generation that knew only violence growing up, these aggressive games offer a logical continuation to lives lived in hardscrabble conditions.
8. In those moments he tells audiences about his hardscrabble, Depression-era childhood in the tiny town of Russell, Kan.
9. It's a hardscrabble life, but getting better, for Costa Rican campesinos such as this young woman in Guanacaste province.
10. To attract workers, BHP and other companies are building recreation centers, sports fields and art galleries in hardscrabble company towns.
11. All but closed to immigration, Japan faces an acute labor shortage, especially for jobs at the country's hardscrabble farms or small family-run factories.
12. McCarty asked her why she wanted to work in a hardscrabble neighborhood when she could earn far more in a comfortable suburb.
13. He and his men are operating with impunity in the high-desert landscape of southwestern Pakistan's Baluchistan province and its hardscrabble capital city, Quetta.
14. And in giving such people "a chance to be themselves, " he saw himself as a champion of the South's hardscrabble underclass, both black and white.
15. During the job interview, Patricia McCarty asked her why she wanted to work in a hardscrabble neighborhood when she could earn far more in a comfortable suburb.
16. A hardscrabble wrestler who had been told that he didn't have what it took to make it in professional wrestling, Batista took that as a personal challenge and signed with WWE.
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18. Anchored by the powerful vocals and incisive songwriting of Erika Wennerstrom, the Heartless Bastards are a roots rock band whose tough, emotionally resonant music incorporates elements of blues, hard rock, garage punk, and country as filtered through tales of a hardscrabble life lived in the Americ…
19. 2003, Thad Sitton, Harder than hardscrabble: oral recollections of the farming life, page 124: And Tom Bowles told him, says, "Go up to the store and get you a free pair of Britches [on me]." Says, "Them damned old Britches you wearing ain't fittin' to wear to town."