hard knocks

How To Use hard knocks In A Sentence

• Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres. History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
• Worst of all, economically, the hard knocks and lucky breaks of life, which people generally accept when they are distributed by fate, become politicized, and therefore embittering. My Inflation Nightmare
• She has had a family life full of hard knocks. Times, Sunday Times
• Clive's taken quite a few hard knocks lately.
• In a nutshell, I hadn't suffered the same hard knocks and had little chance of knowing what was really important in life.
• He took plenty of hard knocks and got up to give plenty of hard knocks, took a good pack mark, buffeted Richardson out of position in marking duels, punched the ball clear and is a stylish left foot kick.
• She has had a family life full of hard knocks. Times, Sunday Times
• He seems like the kind of guy who has lived life and taken a few hard knocks along the way.
• He relied on skill and perseverance to win his way and when he first entered senior County level football he was subject to a lot of hard knocks.
• It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.