Examples of hardness in a Sentence

the hardness of a diamond The wood's hardness makes it suitable for carving.

Recent Examples on the Web Many of these also have features like a timer or hardness settings, like our pick from Breville. — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022 The case, meanwhile, is milled from a single piece of 904L stainless steel—a painstaking process due to its hardness. — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 28 May 2022 There is a measure of hardness called Janka to rank hardwood. — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2022 The food processor is not suitable for grinding a blend of spices of varying hardness and size. — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2021 For some runners, the variables of shoe geometries, midsole hardness, or excessive stabilizing technologies can push them outside of their preferred motion path. — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 3 Sep. 2020 Meanwhile, Biel does fine work in a slippery role, skating easily between superficial warmth and impenetrable hardness, effortless charisma and frenzied desperation. — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2022 Or maybe some of them are hard, but their hardness isn’t of a kind that lends itself to secure encryption. — Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022 The properties of all those materials are carefully controlled to ensure uniformity in weight, size, hardness, elasticity, and so forth—right down to the color of the rubber. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2022 See More

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