How To Use Hard put In A Sentence
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Quite where messing about became a full-blown profession he is hard put to say, but from life as a humble trimmer, he joined the ill-fated GBR America's Cup challenge where he ‘fell into navigating by accident’.
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He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
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Mr Morton is undoubtedly cleverer than Mr Kirkby, but he will be hard put to match his popularity.
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We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.
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we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
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They'll be hard put to get here before dawn.
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It's a stunning scene, but so muted and unsensational in its presentation that you're hard put to know how to react.
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We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.
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Now we were hard put to find a grubby corner of the upper dock in which to berth Venturous.
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I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
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He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.
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Hirshall kicked the big roan on, and Joe's shorter legged mare was suddenly hard put to to keep up.
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Though disappointing, this dynamic doesn't sink the production (which will run in repertory with Friedrich Schiller's "Mary Stuart"): Indeed, it reinforces a broader vision of a world "grown so bad/that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch" (as Richard puts it).
Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough
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Take, for example, Mutation, his recent collaboration with Akifumi Nakajima, also known as Aube, which involved the taping of sounds from a temple in Kyoto, material which was processed at a later date into something one suspects the locale’s elders would be hard put to recognize.
Disquiet » Sounding Floor
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The rain was falling heavily when the theatres let out, and the brilliant throng which poured from the places of amusement was hard put to find cabs.
CARRYING THE BANNER
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Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993.
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All but the new boys obeyed, and the two "canvassers" were very hard put to it for a while, and might have fared yet worse, had not
The Cock-House at Fellsgarth
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Literal stargazing is even rarer for radio astronomers, who are often hard put to identify even the most common constellations; a radio astronomer asked to test a Cub Scout for his Stargazer badge is a worried astronomer indeed!
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He was hard put to it to decide whether to stay or to quit.
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I contrived to give one of them a smart tap on the crown before they came to close quarters; but ere I could recover myself they were upon me, the staff was wrenched from my grasp, and I was as hard put to it as a stag bayed by hounds.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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We've worked so hard putting a great evening together so it's somewhat uncharitable for him not to put in an appearance.
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Or this diplomat Carl Jacob Burkhard put it in a similar way: He found him mostly effeminated.
The Outing Of Adolf
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By the time I had added an ordinary typewriter table to its scanty furnishing, I was hard put to turn around; at the best, I managed to navigate it by a sort of vermicular progression requiring great dexterity and presence of mind.
MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
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Some folks is purtty hard put t 'airn a livin' now-a-days!
The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays
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She knew only too well the truth of Beth's words since she herself was often hard put to avoid the old ladys lengthy ramblings.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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These songs plumb the depths of vocal technique and of human emotion, and Martel demonstrated a command of her instrument which one is hard put to compare with any other singer of her calibre.
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He was hard put to explain her disappearance.
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The black horse, sitting back against the slope to avoid falling with its rider, was hard put to keep up.
