How To Use hard-bitten In A Sentence
- We began with Deadline U.S.A., a film that is not strictly noir but according to Eddie has the power to make every hard-bitten city desk jockey “puddle up.” VinceKeenan.com
- Forty hard-bitten lifers waited for the guard Barnum to go to sleep on his shift. Chapter 2
- Conservatives, meanwhile, are buzzing over the cover story in the current Weekly Standard, in which Mark Hemingway argues that fact-checking as practiced by PolitiFact -- as well as by the Associated Press, the Washington Post and others -- is just old-fashioned liberal media bias gussied up in the cloak of hard-bitten objectivity. Dan Kennedy: PolitiFact and the Limits of Fact-Checking
- We join the story in the Deep South where Carl's father is a hard-bitten sharecropper on a miserable dirt farm, trudging behind a team of mules in the summer swelter, pushing a hand plow.
- The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling.
- The cops investigating the ‘love killer’ aren't the hard-bitten, cynical flatfoots one expects in a noir.
- And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea - rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand. Chapter 16
- Callan was brought to ill-natured life by actor Edward Woodward, who added a complex moral dimension to the hard-bitten killer, whose life on the edge of society leaves him little room for a personal life.
- Her penetrating soprano lacked a modicum of sensuality for the final opera's antiheroine, but she suggested a hard-bitten gold-digger effectively. Times, Sunday Times
- There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS