Most of the soldiers were hardy young men. Hardy fans stuck with the team through good times and bad.
Only the hardiest pilgrims made the journey.
Recent Examples on the WebDavis’s lab and others have found that the spiders are hardy and capable of surviving cold winters.—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 June 2024 This shrub is not reliably hardy in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6A, where winter temperatures dip below 0.—Rebecca Bull Reed, Southern Living, 10 June 2024 And farming techniques are improving with more widespread tools like hardier crop varieties, precision fertilization, and early disease detection.—Umair Irfan, Vox, 29 May 2024 The other hardy plants-trees, shrubs, and perennials-will survive April’s weather challenge as related to cold weather.—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hardy
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English hardi, from Anglo-French, from Old French *hardir to make hard, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English heard hard
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