How to Use hard-charging in a Sentence

hard-charging

adjective
  • That was the type of hard-charging run the Bears haven’t had nearly enough of.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2024
  • SpaceX has long had a hard-charging culture instilled by Musk since the founding of the company.
    Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Still, the hard-charging producer behind some of the biggest hits of the ’80s and ’90s was attempting to mount a comeback.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But South Carolina called on its play throughout this season to hold off the hard-charging Rebels.
    Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In this case, Murphy gives the group a hard-charging edge presence who should be stout against the run while developing his pass-rush plan. 9.
    Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Colombia owed its wins over South Korea and Germany partly to a hard-charging style.
    Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Where to Play Skiing the Minturn Mile, an out-of-bounds run that spans three miles and drops 3,000 vertical feet, is a right of passage for hard-charging locals.
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Still, in the past 2 ½ years, Willis has gained a reputation as a hard-charging prosecutor.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • With a very stiff 130 flex, these are a responsive touring boot for advanced skiers looking for hard-charging, precise gear.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Karp also brought in Quinn Emanuel—a firm that, like Williams & Connolly, is famed for its hard-charging litigation.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2025
  • And without having to deal with the timing of a snap and hold, or fear of hard-charging opponents seeking to block the kick, Dicker knocked it through the uprights, cutting Denver's lead to 21-13.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • That’s only now become a reality thanks to grass-roots efforts and hard-charging surfers.
    Jeré Longman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Moore hit a ball out to shallow left in the top of the seventh inning that hard-charging Royals left fielder MJ Melendez was unable to field cleanly.
    Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The hard-charging Korean brand renames and redesigns its compact sedan.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Sullivan, 60, is the hard-charging businessman, stocky, direct and blunt.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Cody Jinks knows the songs and topics on his album, Change the Game, out tomorrow (March 22), could be perceived as a bit of a departure from the hard-charging brand of country-rock his fans have come to expect.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Jim is hard-charging, the tech type who demands some impossible-to-produce prototype land on his desk by Friday.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
  • Arcangelo held off a hard-charging pack of four horses to win, with betting favorite Forte coming on for second.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
  • But Hamas’s attacks of late last year, and Israel’s hard-charging military response in Gaza, have exploded tensions in the region.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 29 Nov. 2024
  • For all his hard-charging obsessiveness, Stanton has a softer side.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Deep self-examination doesn’t always come easy to hard-charging CEOs.
    Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • His second win in the Travers, against a hard-charging Thorpedo Anna who very nearly ran him down, was narrow, to put it diplomatically.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • This week’s crop of new music finds Luke Combs and Bailey Zimmerman pairing up on a hard-charging anthem about grit and determination.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 May 2025
  • The manager is known for his hard-charging attitude and has detractors as well as some defenders in Hollywood.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
  • But his hard-charging leadership style has garnered perhaps as much attention as his track record, with some likening him to his counterpart at Tesla.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the heroic efforts of the Mitsubishi public-relations department, the Starion's replacement missed most of the hard-charging two-lane stuff.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This is an excellent middle-of-the-road boot for a beginner-to-intermediate downhill skier who doesn’t need a super soft boot, but isn’t in the market for a hard-charging model.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Knowing that doesn’t make containing the hard-charging, fast-flying Colorado Avalanche forward any easier.
    Pat Graham, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Tirico, 58, not only missed out on hosting the coverage of the hard-charging Sovereignty’s victorious stretch run against the favored Journalism.
    Mark Story, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2025
  • Seacrest has a famously super-packed schedule, even by hard-charging Hollywood standards.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024

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