How to Use hard lines in a Sentence

hard lines

plural noun

• Talks his administration began on reviving the nuclear deal are currently off the table as both sides held to hard lines.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Having hard lines for start and end times at work helps too.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• There is old weather on their faces, on the hard lines of their jaws, on their chaotic mouths.
  — Kevin Barry, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• But squint and make the hard lines blur, this girl looks like a model from a magazine.
  — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
• The wide, sometimes sad, sometimes weary and emotionally full eyes, the hard lines of the faces, the clear weight of their lives.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, SPIN, 17 Feb. 2023
• Trump, for his part, seems inclined to take a hard line with Mexico.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 2 June 2019
• Cream blush will give you that beautiful dewy look and a buffing dense brush helps with any hard lines from the cream blush.
  — Rachel Dube, SELF, 22 Feb. 2022
• At the same time, Trump has pressed China to take a harder line against its neighbor and worked to expand the bite of U.N. sanctions.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• But not all the lawmakers took a hard line with the executives.
  — NBC News, 8 May 2018
• The principal will take a harder line with students, Aguirre-Sacasa said.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 21 July 2019
• The Saudis have seized on his rhetoric toward Iran, and even Qatar, to take a worryingly hard line on both.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• Trump has unquestionably made good on his promise to take a hard line on Iran.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020
• Chinese officials have taken a hard line on the protests.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 2 Aug. 2019
• The hard lines of segregation have faded in Ahoskie, a town of 5,000 people in the northeastern corner of the state.
  — Casey Ross @caseymross, STAT, 13 Oct. 2020
• Trump suggested that Xi is the one who told Kim to take a harder line after the meeting was announced.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
• Musk draws a number of hard lines in the sand in the email for his employees, contractors, and suppliers.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 17 Apr. 2018
• The 4,000-foot route features exposed ice and rock climbing and was the hardest line anyone had ever soloed in the region.
  — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
• Gardner posited that Democrats, many of whom have voiced support for Trump's harder line on trade talks, would balk at the idea of reining him in.
  — Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN, 6 June 2018
• Now, Kylie has opened another pop-up in San Francisco and per usual, die-hards lined up around the block.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 21 May 2018
• Veterans of China's hip hop scene said the new rules are, like so many things in China, more about nuance than hard lines.
  — Marian Liu, CNN, 29 Mar. 2018
• Trump does not hesitate to take credit for the hard line toward Russia.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• In addition to his hard line on Iran, Bolton has taken a tough stance toward North Korea.
  — Fortune, 23 Mar. 2018
• But when pressed on specifics by senators, Muilenburg took a harder line.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
• Some of those who took a hard line on immigrants saw the issue as a zero sum that took away from helping others close to home.
  — Jim Shultz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020
• But its position draws a hard line that will not cover any cost overruns because of them.
  — Patrick O'Donnell, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
• Silver's approach on the leaving-the-bench rule is similar to the rollback on the hard line that Stern took with the dress code for inactive players on the bench.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 June 2018
• Mr Duterte’s hard line on drug dealers and other miscreants was at the core of his election campaign.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
• On matters of the environment, Hathaway draws a hard line.
  — Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2019
• That stage of athlete activism created hard lines among those who did and did not speak out against the US government.
  — Motez Bishara, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
• Or, Trump could take a harder line against Beijing over human rights and the autonomy of Hong Kong, where protests have raged for weeks.
  — Joshua Gallu, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024