How to Use hard-charging in a Sentence

hard-charging

adjective
  • That was the type of hard-charging run the Bears haven’t had nearly enough of.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Still, the hard-charging producer behind some of the biggest hits of the ’80s and ’90s was attempting to mount a comeback.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But South Carolina called on its play throughout this season to hold off the hard-charging Rebels.
    Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In this case, Murphy gives the group a hard-charging edge presence who should be stout against the run while developing his pass-rush plan. 9.
    Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Colombia owed its wins over South Korea and Germany partly to a hard-charging style.
    Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Still, in the past 2 ½ years, Willis has gained a reputation as a hard-charging prosecutor.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • With a very stiff 130 flex, these are a responsive touring boot for advanced skiers looking for hard-charging, precise gear.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That’s only now become a reality thanks to grass-roots efforts and hard-charging surfers.
    Jeré Longman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Moore hit a ball out to shallow left in the top of the seventh inning that hard-charging Royals left fielder MJ Melendez was unable to field cleanly.
    Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The hard-charging Korean brand renames and redesigns its compact sedan.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Cody Jinks knows the songs and topics on his album, Change the Game, out tomorrow (March 22), could be perceived as a bit of a departure from the hard-charging brand of country-rock his fans have come to expect.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Jim is hard-charging, the tech type who demands some impossible-to-produce prototype land on his desk by Friday.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
  • Arcangelo held off a hard-charging pack of four horses to win, with betting favorite Forte coming on for second.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
  • For all his hard-charging obsessiveness, Stanton has a softer side.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Deep self-examination doesn’t always come easy to hard-charging CEOs.
    Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • His second win in the Travers, against a hard-charging Thorpedo Anna who very nearly ran him down, was narrow, to put it diplomatically.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But his hard-charging leadership style has garnered perhaps as much attention as his track record, with some likening him to his counterpart at Tesla.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the heroic efforts of the Mitsubishi public-relations department, the Starion's replacement missed most of the hard-charging two-lane stuff.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This is an excellent middle-of-the-road boot for a beginner-to-intermediate downhill skier who doesn’t need a super soft boot, but isn’t in the market for a hard-charging model.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Seacrest has a famously super-packed schedule, even by hard-charging Hollywood standards.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • That kind of online bravado is common in Discord gaming groups steeped in the macho, hard-charging culture of tactical shooters and military combat, Ivory said.
    Drew Harwell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • See The Connectors In an industry shaped over the decades by bombastic and hard-charging men, Drescher embraced her idiosyncratic and unabashedly female style.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
  • But Jobs’ hard-charging personality and zeal for perfection clashed with Sculley and Apple’s board members.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Linda Yaccarino, a hard-charging veteran of TV’s ad-sales wars, is in talks to become the next chief executive of Twitter, according to a person familiar with the matter.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • The extra-long chest half-zipper let wearers dump heat on sunny resort afternoons or after hard-charging powder runs in Steamboat, Colo., and two zippered side pockets secured a phone or warm up chilly fingers.
    Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Lindsay Dougherty The tough-talking, hard-charging, tattooed Hollywood Teamsters boss leads with her own brand of feminine energy.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Overall, the project takes its inspiration from the 46-year-old entertainer’s hard-charging touring lifestyle and loyal fanbase he’s amassed over nearly three decades of touring and performing.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2023
  • As Arcangelo was holding off the hard-charging Forte, Antonucci was screaming and jumping with every stride before nearly falling to her knees in joyful relief.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 11 June 2023
  • Moore and the hard-charging president of the company, Andrew S. Grove, began to refocus Intel away from cheap memory chips to high-margin microprocessors — the brains of the computer.
    Ashley Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • That double pursuit, outwardly hard-charging and inwardly serene, is the epitome of grace in every human endeavor.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024

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