Examples of hard sell in a Sentence
Such an expensive project will be a hard sell during these slow economic times.
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Trump’s effort to tie Democrats to spikes in the price of health insurance is a hard sell.
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Juan Williams, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
But that’s a hard sell when a player has missed more than half the season and still hasn’t recovered from his original injury.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
His much-ballyhooed press tours are not aimed at awards voters; they’re aimed at Gen-Z men, who require a hard sell to buy tickets for a period piece about a Ping-Pong player or a biopic of an old folk singer.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
Yet the idea of paying seven figures to spend a week in the Chicago suburbs—at the former residence of an NBA icon who retired a quarter-century ago—proved a hard sell.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2025
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Juan Williams, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
But that’s a hard sell when a player has missed more than half the season and still hasn’t recovered from his original injury.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
His much-ballyhooed press tours are not aimed at awards voters; they’re aimed at Gen-Z men, who require a hard sell to buy tickets for a period piece about a Ping-Pong player or a biopic of an old folk singer.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
Yet the idea of paying seven figures to spend a week in the Chicago suburbs—at the former residence of an NBA icon who retired a quarter-century ago—proved a hard sell.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2025
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“Hard sell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20sell. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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