How to Use hard-nosed in a Sentence

hard-nosed

adjective

• The hard-nosed winger was too kind to his old team on Tuesday.
  — Joe Smith, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
• Canales is also eager to add more hard-nosed players in the draft.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2025
• His talent for the work, and hard-nosed tactics, showed early.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• For sheer, hard-nosed craftiness, Myron was right up there with Gomer Pyle.
  — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2023
• The Hawks, a team that embraces hard-nosed play, will need to match the Cardinals’ ability to dictate the pace.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• And that's just playing hard-nosed, blue-collar, grind-it-out baseball.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
• What to know: A hard-nosed team playing tight defense and holding opponents to the fewest points per game (51.8).
  — Michael Waterloo, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
• Originally a walk-on linebacker, Hatch is known more for his hard-nosed style of play.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• Throughout his tenure, the Knicks often resembled the gritty, hard-nosed teams of the past.
  — Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
• He’s made a career of playing hard-nosed heroes, wiseguys, and dirtbags.
  — Sezin Devi Koehler, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
• Schwartz has a hard-nosed and old-school reputation, but with a twist of attitude.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• Even their hard-nosed editor might think that’s going a little too far for your job.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
• The tenacious point guard is venerated by Celtics fans for his hard-nosed play and hustle.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Hard worker gives you his all every shift and his hard-nosed playing style will translate well at the next level.
  — Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• When the Mavs rolled out of bed and looked in the mirror this morning, many of them probably saw someone who doesn’t play enough hard-nosed defense.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• However, she was hounded by the Golden State Valkyries hard-nosed defense, going 0-for-7 from three in the loss.
  — Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
• This was the essence of Roosevelt’s hard-nosed, pragmatic belief in peace through action, not merely through words and ideas.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
• He was raised by his mother and grandmother — a hard-nosed prune farmer whom McGuire credits for his career.
  — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Along the way, the hard-nosed and principled leader was also a minor league manager, scout and bullpen coach.
  — Paul McCardell, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
• Along the way, the hard-nosed and principled leader was also a minor league manager, scout and bullpen coach.
  — Paul McCardell, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024
• Phillips, the hard-nosed, third-round slot corner from Kentucky, was in the middle of several fights and skirmishes.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
• Train cars are an arena to verbally spar with hard-nosed reporters who are thoroughly won over by the mouths of these boys.
  — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
• The Ginza store seemed to have spun out of Xu’s own romantic yearnings rather than hard-nosed business logic.
  — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
• The hard-nosed slot receiver also finished with the the ninth-best pass blocking grade among Power Five wideouts.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Jim Hiller is sticking to the hard-nosed, defense-first philosophy that got the Kings to the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs — and no further — in each of the last three seasons.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
• Stover is essential to this team’s identity as a leader and hard-nosed on-field presence.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2023
• The website may have high-minded ideals, but their termination agreements are full of hard-nosed legalese.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 18 May 2024
• But Israelis should ask themselves how well the hard-nosed, forever-war approach has worked in practice.
  — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• In addition to Jacob Furphy, a 6-foot-6 hard-nosed wing from Australia.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 28 Mar. 2025
• Her only chance for safety is to cut a dirty deal with the hard-nosed gang leader Zuka (rapper Ziad Zaza).
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 22 May 2025