How to Use hardship in a Sentence

hardship

noun
  • They had to endure the hardships of life on the frontier.
  • The city has been experiencing a period of financial hardship.
  • He had suffered through considerable hardship.
  • There are hardship cases brought to the AIA, Hines said.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • But the hardship that defines the city is not evenly shared.
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • The heartbreak and the hardships would always be part of my Paris story.
    Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The small farmers who stayed faced their own hardships.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The break from the city helps each of the women find a way to shuffle alongside life's hardships.
    Diaa Hadid, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Floods strike a new blow in an area of Kentucky that has known hardship.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Even now people are still very joyful in the midst of great hardship and tragedy.
    Martin Dale, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Moss is adamant that despite the hardships of the past few years, the record is not just about taking grief from peers.
    Mike Isaac, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This isn't the first hardship the Hartsook tenants have dealt with as of late.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Now the government is telling them to put up with hardships.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • Sims, a 5-foot-8 guard, joined the team on a seven-day hardship contract on Aug. 3.
    Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The Bulls signed F Malcolm Hill to a 10-day hardship contract.
    Andrew Seligman, ajc, 15 Jan. 2022
  • That was too much hardship for too many people, for too long.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2022
  • With so many out, the Spurs have signed three players to 10-day hardship contracts.
    Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Leave all this behind, the poverty, the hardship, and do better than the ones who came before you.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The attacks brought months of hardship for millions of Ukrainians.
    Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The first call went to King, who signed a rest-of-season hardship waiver contract.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
  • The Tower is not always an omen of hardship and struggle.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The Tower is not always an omen of hardship and struggle.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025
  • The damage done isn’t permanent, and all the hardship leads to better things.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In times of hardship, cooking shows can make the case that recipes are sources of not just meals, but also resilience.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Perhaps the biggest hardship aside from the bombs is water.
    Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Their lives become linked through a young girl who brings both hardship to them but also hope.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 May 2025
  • Per a report, James Ennis will join the team on a hardship contract.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The characters, the kitchen, the relationships and the hardships are what people come back to watch.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
  • Raised with humble means in the fields of Hobbs, New Mexico, by his immigrant mother, Heredia forged values in hardship rather than academia.
    Jon Stojan, USA Today, 29 July 2025
  • With a population of over 32 million—more than half under the age of 18—Madagascar also faces severe economic hardship.
    Liam Freeman, Vogue, 29 July 2025

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