How to Use hard to take in a Sentence

hard to take

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• That’s why his death – and the cause of it – is so hard to take.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2 Dec. 2022
• Every message is disruptive and hard to take at what feels like the last minute.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
• Or might just scare people a little bit too much, or are just too dissonant and too hard to take?
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• The result was a season that was hard to take a temperature of.
  — Scarlett Conlon, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
• The impending idea of death was hard to take in—so my anxiety decided to take over.
  — David Freyne, Time, 7 Dec. 2025
• Back at home, the couple are mocked by their 13-year-old daughter who tells them that their three-hour plays are just too hard to take.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
• Lorna starts off a little hard to take, but her reaction to the dead woman on the floor is a nightmare — for the viewer.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• The series delivers a sense of community with the way Jimmy and his unit work hard to take care of the town.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Unfortunately, during times of high demand these tests can be hard to take or results are delayed.
  — Lauren Joseph, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2021
• The vines work hard to take root, and from their struggle come wines that are bold, aromatic, and uniquely Croatian.
  — Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
• At the same time, these individuals were hard to take seriously.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Prober still isn’t happy with Apple and says that Apple’s actions have hit his business in a way that’s hard to take.
  — Adam Speight, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
• Of course there were moments that were hard to take — when suspects mentioned which brands of lubrication were best or whether or not a parent might hold a child down.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• Political divisions and distrust have also been hard to take.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2022
• Nathan Lane’s Ward McAllister remains, alas, a little hard to take.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Too often feedback is solicited through physical suggestion boxes that are hard to take action on.
  — Claire Schmidt, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• But Khan and Rabada fought hard to take the game into the final overs, where they were trumped by Archer and Deshpande.
  — ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
• But Piton works hard to take advantage of every opportunity to be seen for his talent, Sokol said.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Because every single member of cast & crew worked very hard to take care of each other during a time that’s stressful, in a situation that’s tough to control.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 8 Feb. 2023
• But what each of them had in common was an eye-catching quality that rendered the wrists of the nominees, presenters, and others at the awards show hard to take your eyes off.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2026
• This deliberately shoddy level of finish is one source of the tension in Reaves’ sculptures, most of which have a junkiness that’s hard to take.
  — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
• The pain of a Preston equaliser would have been hard to take — not just losing two points but letting Sheffield United off the hook in Devon.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
• The relentless heat is especially hard to take because art students routinely spend several hours in studio classes.
  — Debbie Truongstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• JaNae Bates, one of the young, Black activists leading the movement to pass the proposal, said her group worked hard to take all voices into account.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2021
• The Democratic proposal is in one sense hard to take seriously because price controls are so obviously dumb.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 May 2022
• That’s hard to take seriously no matter what passes as conventional wisdom among real economists.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
• Parfit was so strange an individual, and lived such a strange life, that his musings on the real-life implications of his work might be hard to take seriously — or so my professor thought.
  — Oliver Traldi, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Biden’s claims to be protecting American workers and businesses in general with such actions are hard to take seriously.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 May 2024
• The idea that these companies are meaningfully different from gambling sites — or, more to the point, that their growth is not being driven by young men gambling on their phones — is hard to take seriously.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
• The Mountaineers worked hard to take away Miles’ effectiveness as a scorer and held her to 0 for 1 shooting and only one assist in the final quarter.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Jan. 2026