hardscrabble

How To Use hardscrabble In A Sentence

• He's been through hard times: his hardscrabble childhood on the veld would make David Copperfield's seem cosseted by comparison.
• Rather than leaning on his appealingly gruff Neil Diamond pipes to articulate personal stories of drunkenness and hardscrabble redemption, Bachmann takes a more imaginative approach here.
• the sharecropper's hardscrabble life
• The hardscrabble, bare-knuckle fight for power is the primitive pulse that runs through his latest novel, The Eagle's Throne.
• Pregnancy has the further effect of burnishing Demi's biography: It makes her hardscrabble childhood seem more poignant.
• McCarty asked her why she wanted to work in a hardscrabble neighborhood when she could earn far more in a comfortable suburb.
• On a cold blustery March day in 1839, when she was nineteen, Susan moved with her family two miles down the Battenkill to the little settlement of Hardscrabble, later called Center Falls, where her father owned a satinet factory and grist mill, built in more prosperous times. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
• Grasso's hardscrabble early life has, if anything, burnished his reputation on the trading floor - a blue-collar stronghold where college degrees are strictly optional.
• The residents' hardscrabble backgrounds vary greatly, but Beckvold said the women seldom pass judgment.
• Many people in the audience were skeptical, because their experience has been that it's a hardscrabble existence.