Example Sentences

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“What are we living for? / Two-roomed apartment on the second floor,” Davies sings in this stark hard-times lament.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023

Now in his mid-70s, he brought a touch of frost to Shakespeare’s sylvan Forest of Arden, summoning the hard-times atmosphere of the Great Depression.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2017

George's "Willin'", for example, is the tale of a hard-times Southwestern truck driver who keeps on the road against all the odds, a hint at Allman's near continual touring.

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2017

And Luke Cage is about a black man whose hard-times heroism embodies the African-American experience, and who still – occasionally – utters his Blaxploitation-era catchphrase “Sweet Christmas!”

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

I’ve heard something of all this hard-times talk.

From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by Flagg, James Montgomery