TOUGH in a Sentence
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140 example sentences for TOUGH, such as:
1. Life is tough, but I'm tougher.
2. It was a tough decision to make.
3. Elephants have a very tough hide.
4. The meat was as tough as old boots.
5. They are a tough and bullheaded lot.
2. It was a tough decision to make.
3. Elephants have a very tough hide.
4. The meat was as tough as old boots.
5. They are a tough and bullheaded lot.
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Meanings and Examples of TOUGH
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tough
a. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
n. an aggressive and violent young criminal
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1 As for Aunt Pitty, she was nervously trying to stifle a belch, for the rooster they had had for supper was a tough old bird.
2 His body seemed so tough and hard, as tough and hard as his keen mind.
3 For all his lankiness he was tough, and good nursing pulled him through.
4 He paused and gnawed the tough pone and Scarlett shivered.
5 He's stubborn and he's got a mouth as tough as iron.
6 That doesn't help a man pull himself out of a tough fix, like we're all in now.
7 He was tough and hard and there was no nonsense about him.
8 They are a tough and bullheaded lot.
9 The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
10 The Negro tough, on the contrary, is given to just that kind of offending, and he almost invariably singles out white people as his victims.
11 He affects a "tough" aspect, wearing his hat on one side and keeping a cigarette in his mouth all the evening.
12 Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.
13 An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eyebrows and the Roman nose, suggested with some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon the eyes of a tough little bird.
14 He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained.
15 Poor thing, she too had some of the vulnerability of the wild hyacinths, she wasn't all tough rubber-goods and platinum, like the modern girl.
Example Sentence: (103 in 7 pages)
1 Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
2 Learning to read as an adult is tough work, but you can win this battle if you try.
3 When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
4 Life is tough, but I'm tougher.
5 It was a tough decision to make.
6 Elephants have a very tough hide.
7 She was a tough girl with rather an abrasive manner.
8 The meat was as tough as old boots.
9 She touched its tough irregular surface.
10 The overland route is across some really tough mountains.
11 She's been having a tough time of it lately.
12 These toys are made from tough plastic.
13 Remove the tough outer leaves before cooking.
14 Tough times never last, but tough people do.
15 We'll have to make some tough decisions - there are no easy options.