HARDSHIP in a Sentence

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1. It will work no hardship on me.
2. We are ready to face any hardship.
3. I commenced by inuring my body to hardship.
4. Housing benefit provides a cushion against hardship.
5. With fatalism, he accepted the hardships that beset him.

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 Meanings and Examples of HARDSHIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hardship
 n.  difficult or unpleasant conditions of life
 n.  something that causes suffering
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  The people of the town were suffering hardship, privation, sickness and death as severely as the rest of the Confederacy; but Atlanta, the city, had gained rather than lost as a result of the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  It will work no hardship on me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
3  This worked great hardship and strained the tact and forbearance of the unrelated half of the town, for the India-Melanie feud made a rupture in practically every social organization.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
4  Come, friend, don't be mournful for the colt; 'twas an innocent thing, and had not seen much hardship.'
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
5  If, however, I found in my new home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness, I had the consolation that I should not have escaped any one of them by staying.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  What would be hardship and distress and injustice in his own class, is a cool matter of course in another one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  Bless my heart," replied Menelaus, "then I am receiving a visit from the son of a very dear friend, who suffered much hardship for my sake.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
8  A father could not be more delighted at the return of an only son, the child of his old age, after ten years' absence in a foreign country and after having gone through much hardship.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
9  Such as I am, it is I, who after long wandering and much hardship have got home in the twentieth year to my own country.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
10  I am very sensible, madam, of the hardship to my fair cousins, and could say much on the subject, but that I am cautious of appearing forward and precipitate.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  I commenced by inuring my body to hardship.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
12  He loved enterprise, hardship, and even danger for its own sake.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  Elinor could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
14  I thought that if I had been he, I would have tried to do it, at the cost of almost any hardship.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
15  He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Example Sentence:
1  Housing benefit provides a cushion against hardship.
2  Students may suffer severe financial hardship as a result of the government's decision.
3  We are ready to face any hardship.
4  Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage the proliferation of countless get-rich-quick schemes.
5  As members, you can read it for yourselves but the corruption, crime and hardship these people must endure is heartbreaking.
6  With fatalism, he accepted the hardships that beset him.