Examples of hardscrabble in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Rose, a product of the city’s hardscrabble west side, was a man of average physical gifts who propelled himself to unparalleled athletic heights and a mythic status hard to imagine for a baseball player today. Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024 What makes the claim believable is its specificity — page numbers and all — and the fact Vance’s memoir was lauded as a heartfelt, unvarnished coming-of-age tell-all about his hardscrabble Appalachian childhood. Allen Salkin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024 Justice Edward Panelli, who rose from a hardscrabble childhood in Depression-era Santa Clara Valley to the state’s highest court, died Saturday evening in Saratoga at the age of 92. Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 22 July 2024 His contemporaries were the likes of Saddam and of Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad -- military men from poor families and hardscrabble towns who fought their way to the top, riding the wave of revolutionary sentiment that swept the Middle East in the 1960s and 1970s. Mohamad Bazzi, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2011 See all Example Sentences for hardscrabble 

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“Hardscrabble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardscrabble. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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