Example Sentences

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Attitudes toward migrants and refugees are hardening throughout the continent, in a difficult balance between protecting borders and respecting human rights.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2023

Officials are hardening their infrastructure; platforms are taking down burgeoning disinformation campaigns before they come anywhere close to virality.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2020

“We are hardening, if you will, the fence here, putting up concertina wire to make that wall less scalable,” Walker said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2018

My joints are stiffening and my arteries are hardening while the rest of my pallid, toneless body looks like it’s melting.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2016

Do not re-heat the jelly, but keep it in a warm place, while the mold is on ice and the first layers are hardening.

From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)